The next day we headed to Auckland. On the way there we stopped at Hobberton the town from the Lord of the Rings. However our heads were seriously aching from the night before and all we could think about was getting hold of some greasy food. We saw the golden arches and we naturally ran towards McDonalds to satisfy our cravings. When we eventually got to Auckland we were amazed at the size of the city. Everywhere in NZ has been so small compared to what we had ...

From Taupo we headed to Rotorua. It has to be THE smelliest place in the world. The sulphur makes the whole place stink like rotten eggs and led to us dramatically lying on our beds and shutting all the windows and doors while claiming it was making us ill. We have decided they really should try and use some industrial strength air freshener to deal with this problem. The first afternoon Sian, Gee and Emily went white water rafting while me and Em seemed to wast...

We planned to stay in 'Welly' for 3 nights but some festival was on which meant prices rocketed up so decided to head up North to Taupo a day early to save on accommodation. Taupo is situated around a Lake which is the size of Singapore and is a gorgeous place (I know we seem to be saying this a lot but this country really is so pretty).We spent the afternoon chilling by the lake and laughing at people's attempts to hit a golf ball into a hole on a pontoon in the...

From Queenstown we headed through Christchurch again for one night (only to find out our bagel shop was closed…noooo), and then onto Kaikoura again. The night we stayed in kaikoura we got hit by a crazy storm with a load of rain and very noisy gales. It did not bode well for our ferry crossing the next day. We left Kaikoura around 9ish to head to the North island. The south island flew by so we were a little confused as to how we were heading north already. The...

Queenstown is the adventure capital of New Zealand with approximately around 640 different activities you can get up to. We did none of these and we are not really sure how that happened. In fact our 4 days we spent in Queenstown seemed to be spent either eating, drinking or getting over drinking which included more eating. It all started well when it was announced as we got into Queenstown that we would all be meeting at the hostel bar that night to head out. We...