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!! Yeste...

Wednesday 3rd November - Base, Taupo (Matt's 1st blog!!! ............About bloody time) We left Waitomo this morning at 10!!! Happy for a lay in!! We then had a 2 hour journey through the back roads to Taupo and Tongariro National Park this is where the filming of Lord of the Rings was set in the mountains of Na-ru-hoe-e (Mount Doom). As soon as we arrived in Taupo we were picked up by the skydiving minibus!! By this time i was s***ting myself just by the ...

Sunday 31st October 2010 – Base, Rotorua Kia Ora!! Wow!!! We have had an absolutely amazing day today!! Just had to write it down before I forgot it all!! We left Mercury Bay, Whitianga this morning and were picked up by our bus at 7:30am and headed to Rotorua – our next overnight stop. We went for our first proper walk/hike in New Zealand through the Karangahake Reserve (old gold mines) which took us through pitch black railway tunnels up through the cav...

NEW ZEALAND 28th October 2010 – Arrived in Auckland, New Zealand - 3 hour flight from Nadi, Fiji Friday 29th October 2010 - Well were here now in New Zealand!! Arrived yesterday afternoon and caught a bus straight from the airport to our first proper hostel – Nomads Fat Camel in down town Auckland. We had a private room, with a shared bathroom and kitchen (were letting ourselves in slowly with the bigger shared dorms – lol ). All pretty basic and we got...

FIJI ISLANDS – BULA PASS 21st October 2010 – Arrived in Nadi, Fiji – 10hr 40min flight from LAX Day 1 – Coral View Resort, Tavewa Island Day 2 – Coral View Resort, Tavewa Island Day 3 – White Sandy Beach, Naviti Island Day 4 – Naqalia Lodge, Waya Lailai Island Day 5 – Naqalia Lodge, Waya Lailai Island Day 6 – Beachcomber Island, Mamanuca Island Day 7 – Nomads Skylodge, Nadi 25th October 2010 – Naqalia Lodge, Waya Lai Lai Island,Fiji...