Leaving Waitomo we headed to Lake Taupo and stopped at Huka Falls on the way where the water was incredible, the colour was amazing turqoise and sooooo clear! also the current was ridiculous, soo crazily strong! actualy quite scary! miranda, char and myself booked in for a skydive in the afternoon because the weather was soo amazing! We elft for our skydive at 3 although we didnt up flying till about 5pm! 5 of us, (us three girls) and 2 guys from our bus went up...

So leaving Whitiange/Mercury Bay we got on a bus to Rotorua! On the way we stopped at Matamata where Hobbiton is! Miranda, Sem and me couldnt not go and check out the film set so we left the Kiwi bus and got taken to Hobbiton where we walked around the set!! As they are due to start filming the Hobbit in the next couple of weeks we had to sign confidentiality forms not to put any pics up on the internet/facebook/youtube/etc. so you wont be seeing them unless i em...

This morning we got up very early for the bus heading from Auckland to Mercury Bay/Whitianga. We stopped off at the Kiwi Experience main office and were then told due to the continuing bad weather that we would not be able to do very much today because it just wasnt safe/we wouldnt get any good views! So we just headed off on our way to mercury bay. Eventually we got to Hahei beach where the weather was blue skies and sunshine (yay finally!) and we spent an hour ...

Ok soo i'm quite behind now! i will see what i can remember from the Bay of Islands because it feels like yonks ago! I started my travelling in New Zealand and got to my first hostel Base Auckland, by far the worst hostel i've stayed in so far! I was booked in for an 8 bed dorm but found myself in a 4 (which you think would be a good thing) the room itself was pretty dirty and really really hot! I was sharing the room with an aussie guy, british guy and a german...