After leaving Hokitika we travelled further down the west coast and arrived in Franz Josef, a small town that holds a pretty big glacier! We took a few walking routes to see the glacier from different points and it really is quite big!! We went and watched England play the All Blacks in the rugby on Saturday evening, which was quite embarassing as we got beaten quite badly by them!! Not good! The next day we headed to Fox, another town further south of Franz Jos...

After coming back from Samoa we had to jump on a plane the next morning down to the South Island to Christchurch, which was seriously cold 5 DEGREES!! which is super bad after being in 30 Degrees all week!! At least it was sunny!! We picked up our rent a camper van which is sweet, it has a bed a cooker (little one) and all kinds of funky gadgets including a dvd player screen and dvd's!! We drove out of Christchurch up through the Southern Alps to a place called '...

After the rush of the sky dive in Taupo we decided to head north still in the 'thermal alley' which is basically an area of the north island that is vocanically active and every where you go there are thermals springs popping up and areas filled with the smell of sulphur which is the first thing we noticed when we got out the car there! It stunk pretty bad and we were'nt suprised looking around and all the crazyness going on!! We pulled up at another random camp ...

After a few days in Auckland we thought we would head further south to Lake Taupo!! We decided to camp whilst we were down there, even though it was pretty cold!!! Our plan was to to a sky dive, but on the morning of take off the weather wasnt playing games so we had to find other stuff to do. We went to Huka falls which was awesome, quite small but the water was really clear and blue which was kinda wierd, it almost didnt look natural! After this we went to cra...

So now we are in New Zealand after missing a day of our lives traveling over from Chile. We have been staying in Auckland with a family friend who is the best host ever and has taken us out to see loads of the city and the surrounding area!! We have been up the Sky Tower in Auckland city which is the highest building in the Southern Hemisphere and it really is seriously high! They even have a sky jump off it from the top which we saw about 3 people fly past the w...