Day 8 Taupo to river valley Was back on the kiwi bus with a new driver called Mangee. We stopped off at a volcanic park and saw mount doom, another place where parts of the lord of the rings was filmed. The scenery around New Zealand is just incredible no wonder people don't want to leave it's just so perfect here. We made our way to River Valley and had to walk down a very steep hill, not looking forward to climbing back up that hill in the morning, but the vi...

Day 6 Taupo Didn't do much apart from a skydive on the last day here. the weather had been a little dull to start with but by Tuesday our last day it was a perfect day, sun was shining and a blue sky. We got picked up in a limo and off we went to the skydive place. Watched the safety video, got kitted up and off I was onto the plane, the guy I was jumping was great made me feel at ease. I remember all of it and was so excited but so calm at the same time, we ho...

Day 5 - Rotorua to TaupoToday we had Gary another driver who drove us to Taupo. We set off to Taupo stopped a few locations that were quite impressive. First stop was at a blue lagoon, one of those hot water ones, it was very beautiful.You may not know but New Zealand is built on 49 Volcano 's and there are two tronic plates one of the east and the other on the west. That is why it is so geo thermal, with so much hot water around, like Iceland. The second ...

After visting Hobbiton travelled back to Rotorua and to the pleasant smell of the sulphur.Took a few hours to get back but finally got back and just chilled for the rest of the evening before setting off again the next morning. There was a swimming pool at the base hostel that we stayed but it was hot i didnt get time to go in and wish i had oh well will just have to come back.

Day 4 Rotorua stillToday a group of us spent the afternoon at the Hobbiton, basically where the hobbits from the Shire live in Lord of the rings. I now know why they chose this location it is absolutely beautiful, set on fields and fields of green, lakes and just some much greenery and huge trees. The location is just so perfect and the little hobbit holes are amazing the amount of detail to each one is immense. This place is set about an hour out of Rotorua and...