Saturday 10th Nov Finally, an extra hour sleep than usual before getting the coach to go to River Valley at 9:30am. When we woke up, we did struggle to get up because of the pains on our legs from yesterday's walk! Before going to River Valley, we went to Tongariro National Park (again!) but in different area. We thought to go for a walk for a short while but we gave up after half an hour and went back to the coach. It was supposed to be for two hours walk. Whi...

Friday 9th Nov 4.50am wake up call for the coach pick up at 5.40am! It was a hour journey to get to Tongariro National Park. Once we arrived, it was very windy and cold! Unfortunately for both of us, we aren't equipped for the cold weather!! So we had to hire the jacket and bought the gloves each to keep ourselves warm. We setted off hiking at about 7.30am. It was going to be a very long day as it would be 7-8 hours hiking. It was a gentle hiking to start with...

Thursday 8th Nov We woke up early for the minibus pick up at 7.45am to take us to Black Water Rafting. We were quite excited as we didn't know what to expect. We were given the "nice" wetsuit to wear which was difficult to get on! We went back onto the minibus again to go to the cave. Before we proceeded, we had a quick training on abseiling. We had to abseil down into the tiny hole which was 35 metres deep. It was quite scary to have the rocks surro...

Wednesday 7th Nov Another early start for our coach pick up at 8.30am. Before we headed out towards Waitomo, we visited to Te Puia, which is New Zealand's most well known thermal area complete with geysers, boiling mud, a live Maori Arts and Crafts Centre and a kiwi bird house. It was a 90 mins guided tour. Luckily for us, our guide was easy to follow and was quite interesting to see all the thermal areas. To our surprise, it wasn't smelly as w...

Tuesday 6th Nov Our alarm clock were setted for 6am but unfortunately we forgotten to have our alarm clock under our pillows, causing us to wake up at 7am!! 30mins to get ready and packing everything!! We rushed around, panicking!! No breakfast or tea for us. *Sobs* Guess it was lucky that we did wake up in time, thanks to the movement or vibrations from our dorm mates and smelling their shower gels! If it wasn't for them, we would have missed the coach! Moving...