Well I should really put a bit of work into this site and keep it updated but you know how it is whnen your travelling, its taken me an hour to find this internet cafe....so here goes.. After landing in Taupo and spending a few days taking in the sights and sounds of the place, I thought I would go off the tourist track a little and go to where not many (Magic bus) tourists have gone before! that is National Park (thats what the place is called and funnily enou...

off skiing today

Well here I am in Roatorua, land of geo thermal activity mud pools and geysers (the things in the ground, not the dodgy blokes!).... the sun is shining and the place is gorgeous. Rotarua is a bit of a strange place! (Rotaruan's don't take offense!) The earths crust is so thin here, that any water in the ground is heated by the earth, this means that all over the town there are thermal mud pools spewing out hot steam and even in my hostel there were thermal pools...

YO! Well here I finally am! yes I have finally left South America to head off on the next leg of my RTW trip! YAY!!!!!!! I'm still struggling with the date and time as I was only up in the air for 14 hours traveling from Santiago to Auckland but I set off on the 3rd September and landed on the 5th (so the 4th of September is well.....just lost somewhere!) Well what can I say about Auckland so far!!? well firstly is that how clean it all is ! I have yet to s...