Ok so we went to Matamata a one horse town in the middle of nowhere and their claim to fame was that Peter Jackson chose a farm there to film the Hobbit scenes in The Lord of the Rings. So we booked ourselves on the tour and got bussed out to the farm, where the hobbit holes still are. the hobbit holes are good but it does take some imagination to picture what it looked like in the film becasue most of the set was ripped down after filming.New Zealand took this f...

this town really smelt because it is near a sulphur spring, so nowand again you get a really strong smell of eggs which is nice. i did zorbing here. Zorbing- is when you get in a massive hamster ball and get pushed sown a hill. it sounded good to me, when i got there though i booked myself on the extreme one which goes down a zig zag track so you get thrown around loads and they also pour loads of water in before they push you down. now i know what it would ...

First thing we had to do here is drive back to the other hostel (2 hours there and back) because i left my mobile there doh!Lake Taupo is so beautiful, really nice places to stay and the lake is massive it even has a tide so looks like the sea and theres loads of things to do here.our room is in a really nice house which we share with 2 other couples. When we got here we went to talk to the tourist information place becauese i wanted to know how much it was to do...

It was really nice here we found a really nice waterfall which is supposed to be in Lord of the rings we also took loads of photos of Mordor and we also went to the hotel where cast and crew stayed and Peter Jackson edited some of the film.the hostekl was abit scummy and smelled of cats piss though!!!

We have arrived in the North islandWe have applied for our China Visas at the embassey now we just have to wait till friday and go and pick them up then we can continue up towards Auckland and see my cousin Peter i cant wait!Wellington is New Zealands capital but its not like any capital ive ever been too its really quiet. but theres some good bars here.our visas went through fine now we are off on our north island adventure