We headed out of Taupo towards River Valley on Easter Sunday. We stopped off to go for a 2 hour walk which most of us decided not to do as we wanted to try and get 9 holes of golf in instead, but the asrehole at the club said all the clubs were hired out which i thought was pretty amazing considering there was no one actually on the course!!! After hanging round for two hours we then carried on driving through and saw Mount Doom for Lord of thr Rings as well as t...

Updating my blog didn't go to well last time so hopefully i'll be able to get it all up to date now were in Queenstown! On the way to Taupo we stop at Ruakuri Caves for a short walk which was pretty cool but it was nothing compared to the caves from black water rafting. We then headed to Huka falls which were nice as well! The afternoon was all about the skydive though which was absolutely incredible!!! It was a perfectly clear day, literally not a cloud in the s...

The only reason the bus stops at Waitomo is so we can go black water rafting, the population of the town is about 42 people!! I was lucky enough to be in a group going Black Water rafting in the afternoon so we set off pretty much straight away and got kitted out! I really don't understand why they call it black water rafting as it has got absolutely nothing to do with Rafting its more like caving! First of all we had to absail down a 50ft black hole where a tree...

The first thing you notice when you get into Rotorua is the smell - sulphur comes up through the ground so it smells terrible, I have no idea how the locals live with it!! When we got there we decided to go luging! Luging - your basically in this little sort of go kart thing and you just race down these tracks at a pretty quick speed, its quality! I didn't start off to well, we all lined up and started our first race - it does say your not aloud to race but where...