Day 108: we left wanaka early morning heading to queenstown on the way we stopped at puzzle world! An amusement park full of optical illusions, mazes and puzzles. Its a short drive between wanaka ans queenstown so we arrived in queenstown just after lunch. Before we were dropped off at our hostels we stopped at the aj hakett bungy and mikey did a 47m bungy off a bridge and into the river below. This is the original and first commercial bungy! After that we were...

Day 104: the next couple of days we didn't get up to much as there isn't really that much to do along the west coast after along but scenic drive along the coast we arrived at our over night stop at lake mahinapua. Here we stayed at a hostel called the poo pub. The hostel and pub is ran by 87 year old les and Hejaz has the kiwi experience staying with him for over 20 years. This stop is in the middle of no where with the only entertainment being the pub so the ki...

Day 101: the ferry took a couple of hours and we arrived in picton on the south island by mid morning. We stopped in picton for a while to get some lunch before we made our journey down kiteriteri. Not the way stopped at a winery for a spot of wine tasting! We arrived in kiteriteri by late afternoon so we didn't have time to do much and there isn't much in kiteriteri to do so I made a chilli con carne for me and mikey and some of our bus friends! Day 102: today...

Day 99: wellington is a very wet and windy city! But as citys go it pretty good. We spent most of the day in the te papa museum, new Zealand's national museum. The museum is huge with five floors of some interesting exhibits plus there is free wifi so we filled most of our day in the museum! In the evening we treated ourselves to a take away curry! Day 100: Today we had a bit of a sleep in before heading out into the city. In the morning we walked around the ci...

Day 95: today we left rotorua and joined a new kiwi bus. Our finial destination for the day ia taupo but on the way we stopped off at a couple of places. First stop was te puia geothermal reserve where we had a tour of the hot springs and mud pools. We also watched the big geazer and eat boiled eggs cooked in the hot springs. After the park we drove for another couple of hours before stopping off at hula falls, new Zealand's biggest waterfall in terms of volume. ...