Wow so this is a city! Massive car congestion on the roads bumper to bumper! Packed out public transport! Both a must for a checklist of a city, as far as im concerned this is the only place in NZ that deserves to be called a city! After making it out to my hostel in Parnel I went back into town with some unfriendly bus drivers and made my way to the sky tower for a nice sunset and some amazing views by night! The next day it was off to a volcanic island called ...

This small country town was purely based around the caves, I went a cave tour called 'Haggas Honking Holes'. Haggas because of the land which was owned by the haggas family and Honking holes because i guess thats what we went through! It started off straight into an absail down a 25m holes, it was fun but kind of scary because I was in control of the absail with my shaky hands holding the rope! After a few more 8m absails down water falls we kept on following th...

Hmmm, this town . . why would anyone want to live here! Not the greatest of places to settle into eh! Continuous wafts of delightfully smelling sulphur! Like rotten eggs, yummy! I first up went zorbing here, for those that havnt been informed on what zorbing is ill explain. A huge blow up plastic ball where you and a few litres of water jump inside and they roll you down a hill! haha it was a good laugh but didnt last long enough, they needed a bigger hill! It w...

Okay so for those of you who dont know where Taupo is, if u look at the north island its that big lake right in the centre. I checked in to my hostel after doing circles to find it and within 20 minutes of droping my bags off i was getting ready to skydive! They say when the weather is good just go for it! Or else you'll miss out o doing it! My tandem skydive instructor was only about 5 and a half foot but that didnt seem to bother him at all! We jumped in our h...

This was a friendly city (very small city) i found out as i first arrived by bus. I was on the way to my hostel when two people that i didnt evenask checked out if i needed directions to get to where i needed to go, an old man that looked like a wizard and a young girl who was late for work but had time enough to see if i was okay.Either a friendlt city or i looked very lost (heading towards a motorway, woops!) anywho i decided to go have a pub meal on a sunday n...