After enjoying the views one more time on our way out of River Valley, we made our way down to Wellington, New Zealand's capital city. During our drive down we stopped in a town called Bulls for about half an hour, just so the bus could refuel. It is only a small town but every shop in the town has tried to incorporate bulls into it. For example the were consta-bulls on the police station and afforda-bull on the bank etc. etc. Pretty amusing we thought. After ...

After leaving the slightly different to planned stop of Tongariro National Park we were, in the words of Willie Nelson, "Back on the road again" heading towards River Valley Lodge. The River Valley stop off is one of the over night stops which the Kiwi bus makes so that people have the oppotunity to do an activity, like Waitomo. This time the activity was white water rafting. The lodge itself is even more secluded and remote than Waitomo without any form of...

So as you all know we are using a bus called 'Kiwi Experience' as our transport around New Zealand. We have a pass called 'The Funky Chicken'. Now if you do this by their rules and stick to the itinerary it will only take 20 days to do the whole trip, we have 2 months in New Zealand. So that is quite a difference! They do however have optional hop offs and if you can actually work out the buses and there is space to get on the next bus then you can jump off a...

It was once again grey and damp on our journey into Taupo. We have been pretty lucky with the weather so far on our trip so it was bound to turn wet at some point, New Zealand is clearly the chosen country. Before we headed into Taupo we stopped off a Huka Falls, a fast flowing river / waterfall. The river itself flows so quickly that 'you' are not allowed to use it for commerical rafting, you can't charge people to go down it. It was impresive to see how qu...

On our way into Rotorua our bus driver warned us that there may be a slight 'whiff' when we got off the bus, slight wasn't any where near strong enough. Due to lots of geothermal activity in Rotorua sulpher is realised into the air, making the majority of the place smell like rotten eggs and in some areas very strong stink bombs. Despite the smell, all the geothermal activity was quite the sight when we were coming into Rotorua. On a grey day with constant d...