1st oct Up nice and early after a nice lazy Sunday, on route to river valley. Arrived around 1pm and was being set up for white water rafting by 1.30pm. We was told we was staying in what they called the orgy room because all the beds were just two long shelves with all the mattress's put together! Lol We had to drive around 20min to the start point and then have photos taking. I was used as the safety dummy example which was rather entertaining! Then we had to...

29th sept Went for a nature walk through redwood Forrest which was stunning to look at and the water in the river was unbelievable clear! This walk was to Supposedly help cure any hangovers we had! Then we took a drive over to Huka falls where we saw the waterfall which was a amazing blue and then we jumped on the bus to go to Taupo skydive! :). On arrival at the skydive place I met my sky diving Partner Simon, who had been diving for 15 years so I knew I was in...

28th sept 2012 Today we went to agroventures were they had a upside down bicycle race and one of our guys ali put his foot through the bike screen, was a rather comical moment! :) the afternoon we went to the maori native show. We learnt about how there ancestors used to eat white men and war face was eyes popping and tongue out to tell the white men they looked tasty ;) THis was followed by dinner the food was cooked under the ground called a hangi oven. Comin...

27th sept 2012 Up at 7.30 to go to Waitomo. We went for a walk through the old gold-mining caves which I add are not lit up so we was walking in complete darkness and using camera flashes as our way to light the way. Walking across suspended bridges which obviously the guys found entertaining to rock! :) that was around 1 1/2 hours and back onto the bus to our next destination our hostel. We went onto a lime stone cave and glow worm tour around 3pm and had a sh...

26th sept 2012 First day of the kiwi experience tour. Today we went to the cathedral cove where a scene from Narnia was filmed! We then went to our hostel and played name games to get to know the people in the group which I seemed to be the only one playing and had to drink everytime I got someones name wrong! We then had a BBQ where we ate steak with our fingers it was all very civilized. Around 8pm we went over to hot water beach, you had to dig out holes in ...