On leaving rotorua we visited lady knox geiser, where the water sprayed out up to about 10 metres - a bit of a tourist thing really as the guy put soap into the whole to make it bubble. We then visited the geothermal pool - it absolutely smelt of sulphur, some amazng pools tho, the colours were fantastic. After leaving the goethermal area we headed for taupo - where the lake is the size of singapore - its huge. I just spent the afternoon wandering around taupo, w...

Well here i am, five days into new zealand. i arrived on monday evening and was fortunate enough to have a friend my contiki trip meet me at auckland airport. I stayed with him for a couple of nights, it was great having my own even just for those two nights. Huib is an aircraft engineer and has a share in a small plane, he had to do somthing for work so took me out for a trip. All i can say is wow, we went for a flight that lasted a good hour, over auckland, the...