Found a nice lodge to stay in upon arrival here. More expensive then had been paying at $65 night between us but since not a lot else here and this is snow resort so prices will be higher we decided to stay here. Up next morning and headed to local shop to hire all gear (jacket, trousers, goggle, gloves etc) and board and boots. Managed to get all gear for $45 for the day!!!! That is unbeleivable price really is. We then headed up the 17km drive to the mountain ...

Once arrived at Waitomo we checked in at recption of the Black Abyss Caing centre where we were to go on a 3 hour tour experience of the caves. We were ferried to the start point by minibus after getting kitted up and there we had a couple practice goes down a hill using the abseil gear. We were then ready for the off. We repelled 35metres down into the black cave. From here we ventured deeper into the caves. We were then met by pitch blackness as we were told to...

Arrived at Rotorua at 5pm and the intial smell of eggs was totally overpowering. This place is full of hot natural springs which is lovely for those who wish to relax in the natural heated pools, not so good for the suphur and the smell of eggs that this then surrounds the area in!!! That evening we booked ourselves on plenty of activites to keep us occupied and out of trouble over next few days. We booked into a room above a pub (just a coincidence this time, si...

So as I mentioned we booked into YHA where we were booked into a dorm room, however upon arrival we were given keys to a twin private so an uniterrupted nights sleep was achieved and that was well needed after the previous nights antics. That said the way I sleep Im not entirely sure there would of been a problem whatever we were given. Not a lot to write about Auckland we landed we slept we went the following day to a hire company and got ourselves a Nissan St...