We arrived in Las Vegas in the evening after a nine hour bus ride from Los Angeles. We checked into the Stratospherer hotel and were really impressed with our hotel room. It had a TV, a phone, an ensuite bathroom and we didn't even have to share it with strangers! The first evening there we went for a meal in the hotel casino. We went to a cheesy American diner where the staff not only served you food they also sing to you while you ate. On our first full day i...

We arrived in LA after our pointless stopover in Auckland on the morning of the 22nd November. We decided to save ourselves the $40 of a taxi to our hotel and got on the free shuttle bus to the bus depot. Once there we tried to transfer to get the bus to Venicce beach. The only problem with this was that the buses don't give change and we only had $20 notes to pay for our 75c fare. This meant that we had to go to Burger King to have lunch to get some change (alth...

Hi, We arrived in Fiji on Friday 14th in the evening and were glad that we had pre booked accommodation as even the trusted information desk tried to send us to his friends hotel. When we finally found our transfer we headed towards Nadi new town beach and stayed at Beach escape villas. The next day we got the local bus into Nadi town centre to try and organise where we were going to stay in Fiji as Nadi itself is not anything special. We decided to stay on the...

Hello everyone, We are now in the South Island and the scenery is beautiful - Danny, Tim and Nicola keep talking about Lord of the Rings, so sometimes its nice to walk on your own and take in the views while they sing "they are taking the hobits to Isengard." 27th Oct Today we left Gerald and Natalias to catch a ferry to Picton. This was a 3 hour ferry journey to get from the north to the south island and when we got off it was like we were in anothe...

We arrived in New Zealand on the 14th October and booked ourselves onto the Kiwi Wxperience to leave on the 16th. Whilst in Auckland we visited the Auckland Museum and looked around the city. 16th October Up at 5:30am today so that we could get to the Kiwi Experience office to meet our bus for 7am and begin our journey around NZ. The trip up to the Bay of Islands was fun and we were able to meet other travellers from England - after spending weeks in a van thi...