Hey we're in Queenstown now which is great! We're here for a while so it's nice to chill out and lay in bed for a bit longer in the mornings!! As soon as we got here we sampled the FERGBURGER which has got to be the best burger i have ever had!! We met quite a few people on the way down here which is good, there's a crowd of us now hitting the bars at night! I'll just write a bit about the places that we stopped at on the way down here..... 27th/28th Oct - We s...

On the 23rd of Oct we made our way to Taupo on the Magic Bus and made a few interesting stops on the way. The first was to some bubbling geothermal mud pools and then see Lady Knox geyser errupt, which does so at 10:15 AM every morning which was pretty cool. Then we went on to Waiotapu where we saw several geothermal pools and craters - you can see one of the pools in the picture! The smell of the sulphur was pretty overwhelming and we had to run down a few of th...

Hello from New Zealand!! I thought it was about time I wrote an entry as we have been here over a week now and the adventure has definitely begun! After 3 nights and a few drinking sessions in Aukland we caught a bus up north to Paihia to discover the 'Bay of Islands.' Here there are 144 Islands which we got to view in a pretty cool way as we got the 'EXCITOR' speedboat.....and exciting it was indeed! It went at a rediculously fast speed and we crashed over huge ...