This place was incredible. A funky lake with pancake stacks, water sprays and Rainbows :) Great pictures and from a view point, an artist had drawn characters faces that he could see in the rocks opposite. We then continued to Lake Mahinapua and stayed at Poo Pub. A Great dinner put on for us, followed by a fancy dress party, only using bin liners to make our costumes. I came second in the main game, where we had to pick a box off of the floor with our teeth, w...

Nice walk through the national park and a boat ride around the split apple rock. Unfortunately our boat didn't take us around where the penguins were, like the other group. But the Rugby tackles from a crazy German on the beach was a good laugh :D We then drove onto Westport and stayed over night there. There was a big green opposite the hostel, so a few games of football, frisbee and random cartwheels, whilst the others went for a freezing cold surf lesson!!

Today I started the day with a Jet Boat ride at the Huka Falls. It was a quick thrill with the 360 degree spins and the stupid driver going to close to the trees and walls and quickly turning away :-S I think I was sat in the wrong seat, outside at the front!! It looked too convincing that we were going to crash for my liking :) After Lunch I hired a bike with my two new Scottish friends and we went for a gorgeous 20km cycle around Lake Taupo, the view of the sn...

We started the morning with a nice walk around the Redwood Forest in Taupo. These trees are huge, with their thick red straight trunks and no branches until the top, where the forest is covered by a canopy of all there leaves. We then drove to the Hooker falls, which is nicknamed after Hooker apparently killed her boyfriend in an argument, put him in the boot of her car and drove to the bridge on these falls and threw his body over. I don't think it was ever fou...

We drive into Rotorua this morning, it stinks!! It smells like rotten eggs and stink bombs! Rotorua has lots of natural geysers, you can see them bubbling away and steaming as you drive past, the sulphur from these is what causes the bad smell... You get used to it after about 30mins . We checked in and then I got picked up to go White Water Rafting. We got kitted up in all the gear then got a bus to the top of the river and into the Rafts! We practiced our s...