We are heading north & have gone through some beautiful places being rotorua, tauranga (stayed for 1 night) and headed to whitianga where we stayed for 2 nights in a lovely apartment with a pool :-) so nice to have a break from the traveller hostel world :-) I had a long soak in the bath & everything :-) the drive has been beautiful everytime & I've seen some lovely views. Whilst staying in whitianga we ventured to cathedral cove which is a famous nat...

We started our trip from masterton to taupo on Thursday morning, loaded the car up, said goodbye to Rupert & we were off!! Lovely drive down. I can again see difference in landscape to the south, a lot of the surroundings are like certain places in uk but nicer!! We arrived at sams family holiday home in taupo by lunch time, the house is beautiful with a stunning view of lake taupo, the sun was shining & everything was just beautiful! We took a 10min walk...

After travelling 2-3 hours on the kiwi bus we got on the big ferry from picton to Wellington which took over 3 hours! Lovely ferry ride though! I said goodbye to Andrea, my awesome kiwi bus driver who I'll definately see again someday, and got picked up by sambo, my kiwi friend who I met in Vietnam! Great to see him, walked round the city & had dinner then drove for an hour to his house in masterton. The house & the area is beautiful & they have a li...

So I'm back to where I started in the South Island, queenstown. I stayed for 2 nights with my kiwi bus clan, enjoying 2 big nights out all together which was awesome! Had three great bus drivers with us, Andrea, guy & mac! We did a bar crawl both nights! I've been with some awesome people & had the time if my life, I'm so pleased I booked the kiwi bus! I'll definately see some of them again! Was sad to say bye to them! Andrea, my driver most the time, of...

I hitched a ride from Wanaka to Cromwell (hitching is very popular here & good way to get around, it took half hour to get to Cromwell), so that I could stop here for a few hours to go horse riding with Beth, a friend of Hannah monks who I stopped with in Nelson! She warned me her horse I could ride is a bit of a pickle & bucks a lot but I accepted the challenge! As soon as I got on he bucked & span round but I stayed on! We went on a stunning trek fo...