Day 103-106 On the 9th July we had our very own guided tour of Leamington, Cambridge and Hamilton. We went into Hamilton Town Centre and enjoyed lunch outside before heading to Hamilton Gardens. In the gardens we visited 5 different country inspired gardens, namely; Chinese, Indian, Japanese, Italian and English. In the English garden we were playing shoulder races with the kids around the pond. By the end of it we were knackered, although the kids were up for ...

Day 102 New Zealanders are renowned for their action and adventure, so we decided to get into the swing of things by visiting 1 of the only 2 offical Zorbing spots in the world. For those who don't know zorbing involves getting into a huge ball and being pushed down a hill. It sounds mental and it is but heaps of fun. There were few options either dry or wet, straight or zig zag tracks, strapped in or not strapped in and either single or double. We decided on t...

Day 101 We had a look around Rotorua as yesterday all the shops were closed, much to Lorna's disgust we bought some hiking boots. Not exactly the height of fashion but just what we needed. The advice from the shop assistant was not to walk for too long before you've broken the shoes in. So we decided on a 11.5km/3.5 hour walk, ha ha! We actually wanted to do the 24.5km/8 hour walk, although we were glad when our blisters came. The walk started amoungst the gi...

Day 100 Our coach was booked for 0830 and luckily enough we were able to board on time. The journey was pretty uneventful as we slept through most of it. Once in Rotorua we checked into our hostel and then went exploring. Firstly we headed to Kuirau Park to see the hot springs and boiling mud. The smell of sulphur was putrid and the amount of steam was unbelieveable; it was even coming out of the side of the road. We then walked to Ohinemutu to go and visit th...

Day 99 The main reason we wanted to stop in Whangarei was to see the falls. So we got up a bit earlier to get the bus up there. We took a short walk and heard the sound of the falls before seeing them. The walk took us over the river at the top and you couldn't really appreciate how far down it was so we followed the walk around to a lookout at the bottom of the falls, and we could see how spectacular it was. The falls are 28m high and when the water hit the r...