Yo yo yo peeps! The rain has kinda stopped and now we are in Rotorua - also known as Roto-vegas coz it is American and chavvy-ish. Apparently it has a Starbucks but I haven't checked that out yet... So after hanging out in the internet cafe in Taupo yesterday, we headed back to the hostel and decided to ring up about white water rafting for today. The woman was like, well you can't do that any more because we are gonna open the flood gates so it'll all be clos...

Okay, so I survived the whale watching - no capsizing of boats! So I think I was talking about the glacier hike. Basically at the top of the glacier there is snowfall, and at the bottom, there is melting away and so there is a balance between the formation at the top and melting at the bottom. That all sounds boring so I won't continue. Basically we did about 10km that day, walking about 3 km to the actual glacier and then a few kilometers up it. We had to wear...

Greetings from the South Island! It's Friday 22nd August, 9am, and I'm off whale watching in a little while. I'm gonna recap quickly on the last few days, sorry if it's boring, but I can't be bothered to jazz it up. So, the flight was pretty crap. It started off alright, and the movies were fab, but it turned out we stopped in Dubai for a couple of hours and then in Singapopre AND Brisbane, and it all turned out to be a big faff. Basically New Zealand consi...