This morning was an early start for all of us except Vanessa as we'd all booked to go see the hot pools and a famous geyser. First of all we stopped at a mud pool where we could stop and take pictures but weren't allowed in as the natural temperature is really hot. This part of New Zealand is covered in naturally occurring hot pools and hot springs and a geyser is where the hot water has built up underground and eventually erupts. From there we went to the Lady ...

7am and I'm up and ready to go get my first magic bus of many... I met the driver, Amanda, who Tamra had told me was one of the best so that was really good. Then on the bus I met Alice, Tim, Lucy and Vanessa all from England who all seemed really nice, then I also met Ricardo from Brazil, a couple from Ireland and three people from Taiwan. We were driving from Auckland down to Rotorua today and our first stop was Shire's Rest which is also known as Hobbiton :D...

I left Sydney on the 1st August and flew to Auckland. I've had a really chilled out few days here, I met Caroline from Germany and Becca from Liverpool when I arrived who were both really nice and we all got on really well. I also met a Dutch girl called Tamra who had just finished the magic bus, which is the tour company I'm travelling with so I could get some advice off her before I left which was really helpful. My first day in Auckland was pretty lazy; I w...

Today I met up with Ella and we decided to head out to Manly which is a short ferry ride across from Sydney; an American girl called Clare came with us aswell. When we got to manly we bought some sandwiches and then looked for a taxi to take us to the north head of manly so we could look out to Sydney. Tourist information told us that the taxi should cost about $10 but the first taxi we asked said it would be about $14 so we asked another taxi guy who said they...

Today I had a tour of the blue mountains booked; I got up really early, made my way into town and got my self to the pick-up point I'd chose online. I must have been stood there about 20minutes before the bus pulled up and it was bloody freezing!!! There was quite a lot of other people on the bus and majority of them were from England and then the other people were a family from Mongolia and a family from Singapore. Luckily there was a lady from Bristol on her ...