Auckland also known as the city of sails, loads of sailing in the harbour, as you might of guessed. Has a huge Sky tower that you can jump off and you should be able to see that in the picture. There are lots of little Islands that you can do day trips too from the mainland but we have sadly run out of time on this trip. Yesterday Chris decided he wanted to do a bungee jump, and he did it off the Auckland harbour bridge. I cheered him on from my safe spot, on the...

We stayed one night in Raglan a beautiful seaside town, the surfing capital of NZ (I made that last bit up). But it is where all the pro surfers practice and we watched a few in the freezing water, some were standing on their surf boards and paddling with an oar, not quite sure what that is all about. We initially wanted to head up to the bay of plenty and go to Hot water beach where you can dig in the sand and sit in boiling hot sand, but there had been lots of ...

Rotorua stinks!! Literally! It stands upon a bundle of volcanic activity and the earths magma below is boiling, creating bubbling mud pools, and steaming pools in a variety of colours, orange, green and grey on the earths surface. There is a rotten eggy smell that descends upon the whole town, steam rises up out of the drains on the road and the whole town sits in a crater made by a volcano. You might say it's an unusual place and you'd be right. The first da...

We made a second trip to kaikoura,as we came here at the start of our trip to see the whales but our trip got cancelled. We got lucky this time round. Kaikoura is apparently the only place where you can see the mountains and the sea together and it really is a beautiful site, and this time round we had lots of snow on the mountain tops. Sperm whales live in and around Kaikoura. We had all eyes peeled on the water for any sign of a whale. They track them down with...

There are two major glaciers on the west coast of the south Island. Fox glacier and Franz Joseph glacier and you can do walks on both of them. We did the Fox glacier as it was the quieter of the two. The glacier itself is massive, 13.5 Ks, and it is currently growing, although the glacier goes through phases of receding too. Apparently 'they' say it will nearly all be gone in 50 years but who knows. The glacier stands next to a rainforest......