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Bob and Nige-The World Tour 2006! (Fi & Jen)
Kia Ora!
Thats Maouri speak for how ya doin?! we have had a week here in New Zealand and it has been awesome so far...
We started off in the North island and after a couple of days in Auckland, set off south to Waitimo and Roturua for some blackwater rafting in the glow worm caves deep underground-needless to say we got soaking wet on the occassion but our attractive 'beastie boys' attire meant we stayed stylish all the same (note the sarcasm)
We arrived in Roturua in time to visit a Maouri village to learn about the culture and tribes of the North island-we saw the haka and feasted like kings around a massive fire for the evening-result!
The worst part of our journey is the early starts at stupid o clock (6am for gods sake?! is there really any need?) bur after the initial shock we are starting to get used to it, we were gutted when we found out that we couldnt skydive at Lake Taupo but consoled ourselves by throwing ourselves off a 15 metre rope swing instead (heart in mouth activity)
We visited the North island thermal pools which were awesome, then headed to the capital of Wellington, for some bizarre reason we decided we would go to the cinema at 11.30pm as we obviously thought 3 hours sleep would be a sensible idea, then jumped on the ferry to get into the South island.
We picked up a new recruit-Nick along the way whose 24th birthday had also been ruined in Taupo (you suck) from a lack of skydiving action and headed to Nelson...Where finally 4 days later we actually managed to hurl ourselves 13 000ft out of a plane over the abel tasman national park-and it was the best thing we have ever done! SO MUCH FUN -words cannot describe!
so tommorrow we are embarking on a 6 hour hike over the mountains oin search of hobbits... heres hoping :)
smiles from miles xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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