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Friday 5th November - River Valley Adventure Lodge, River Valley
We didn't end up going white water rafting, were going to wait until we head back up the island our way back or do in the south island. The weather is pretty rubbish today (cold and raining) so we've stayed at the lodge with a few others and made a fire to cosy round and roast marshmallows - so thought we'd catch up on our blog. The boys of course had great pleasure in making the fire!!
Yesterday before we got to River Valley lodge, we went for a 2 hour hike down a route in the Tongariro National Park which had views of 3 large volcanoes, Mount Doom, Taranaki Falls and scenary from The Lord of the Rings. Surprisingly Matt and I both really enjoyed the walk (considering Matt doesn't like walking lol! I loved it!!) The views we saw were just incredible! Im actually starting to feel like Im repeating myself all the time with using the same descriptive words ha,ha - but seriously were having such a great time out here,and the friends we've made are making the experience even better!
So after that walk, we then hopped onto the bus which took us to another spot to walk a trail that lead to Tawhai Falls - apparently this was the falls where Schmegal is sitting in one of the moments out of Lord of the Rings?!! We couldn't quite picture it though - was still quite cool to see though!
After that we headed to our next overnight stop - River Valley Lodge. Pretty cool here - were out in the middle of nowhere and I think the nearest shop was about 40 minutes away! Its like a big log cabin!
Finally got Matt to do a blog!!! The last one - about skydiving! J
Skydiving has been the best moment by far, so far!! Apart from the motion sickness of the parachute part - but the actually freefall when we jumped from the plane was just unbelievable - the first 3-4 seconds when you leave the plane and look down was just the craziest feeling! We both defiantly want to do it again.
Were leaving River Valley today and heading to Wellington for 4 days. We've got quite a bit of time left in NZ so were going to start slowing our pase down or were going to get back to Auckland too quick and have too much time there.
We're write again soon!! Xoxoxoxo
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