Wellington We got up in the morning feeling fresh and ready for the day as we actually got a small lie in for once. We walked up the bloody steep hill to our bus and jumped on; the driver then worked his way around the windy roads which wasn't too pleasant but everyone survived. We arrived in Wellington around 4pm and got settled into another backpackers hostel, we knew we were leaving early morning due to us being in a bit of a rush to catch our flight from A...

River Valley The next day we got up ridiculously early as we needed to be in River Valley for some activities people were booked on to, so we all jumped back on the bus for a few hours. Most of us just catch up on sleep or write our blogs on the bus as there isn't really much to entertain us, apart from the driver occasionally making some funny comments about someone or something. We eventually arrived in River Valley at around 1.30pm and it wasn't what any of...

Taupo We left Waitomo at around 10am and headed off to Taupo which is known as the adrenaline town of the North. We arrived fairly early, around 1pm due to a lot of the bus having there skydive booked for the afternoon. Brad and Ross Smith headed off for their skydive, while Ross and a bloke called Will hired out a small motorbike. Ross and Will drove around town looking at the sites, views and looking for activities to do for the following day. We even went a...

Waitomo The following morning we jumped back on the bus and headed towards Waitomo which is known for its amazing underground caves. We arrived at around 1.30pm and headed straight to the people who we would be caving with. We got suited and booted up, head to toe in wetsuit gear as it was going to be very cold underground. We then got chucked in the back of a mini bus for around a 10min drive to the caves J It started off with a 38 meter abseil down into the ...

Rotorua We left around 9am from Mercury Bay heading towards Rotorua which is known as the smelliest town in New Zealand due to its volcanic activity. We arrived at around 2pm and we booked ourselves onto some activities in the evening, once that was done we went luging again in the hills. We had done luging before in Queenstown so we roughly knew what we were doing, but we didn't expect the course to be so good and much longer. We had 5 races each, so we set u...