This was it. Last morning in NZ :( Met the girls for breakfast and a spot of shopping in the morning and then it was time to head to the airport. I was going to miss it all. :( Even writing this is making me sad. Hope to meet people again as I'm gonna miss them all. I was so glad that I did this trip. Has been a life changing experience. Wouldn't have swapped it for anything. Time to head to Tokyo.....this is going to be interesting. :) New adventure.

Nice and early we headed on the long drive upto Auckland. Change of drivers again today and a packed bus so no space to relax. We stopped for lunch etc but it was a longgggg day of driving. If anyone else wants to do this tour I recommend you stop in Christchurch and fly back from there. There is no point to these last few days!! We got to Auckland early evening and some had flights out that night. But before they flew we went for once last meal and a nice one a...

Said our final goodbyes this morning and headed for the ferry from Picton to Wellington. Another day of travelling. The ferry ride was really rough. Don't think the ferry people even expected it to be that bad. Everything was falling left right and centre including people!! I'm so glad I don't get motion sickness!! Tired of all the travelling we had a quiet night tonight. Went for an indian and headed for bed early. We had to be up and out by 6am for the long dr...

3 more days until the tour ends and some of the group were leaving us today :( Can't believe my trip is soon going to be over. Have met soooo many lovely people and made so many friends its sad to leave them behind. First stop today was at the Otago Gold Mining Rail Trail. We were riding 32km down a old rail track today on mountain bikes. Not having ridden a bike for a while I was a bit worried hehe. Luckily we could stop half way if we wanted to :) The ride was...

Woke up this morning to the sound of the boat engine turning on. Was kinda loud and obviously nice and early hehe. We were going to spend the morning on the boat and then head to Central Otago which is gold country :). The morning on the boat was amazing. The weather had picked up and we stopped at some beautiful locations. One where they turned the engine and everything off and there was absolute silence. It was so peaceful :). We got back to our bus after mid...