We have just passed through Rotorua for the first time, and boy have we been busy! Rotorua was the place where we planned to do most of our activities, and we have kept to that!! One of the things we really wanted to do was Zorbing, which was invented in Rotorua itself! For those who do not know you basically get inside a big rubber ball and roll down a hill! (Crazy I hear you cry!) We did a hydro Zorb...with warm water in our zorb as well as ourselves and we we...

(Emma spent 25 mins writing a detailed quality blog on Waitomo....only for the computer to wipe it!!!!) Andrew will now write a brief blog to summarise our time here!!! So Waitomo makes Bempton look like a city! It has 41 permannt residents and is the size of a car park! We booked for 2 nights.....why I hear you cry??? Well.... In Waitomo there are glow-worm caves! These caves are an amazing site! The only light is made from the glowworms! We went on the Spellb...

We arrived in Hamilton on Friday 7th december, and it was a cloudy, cold day - just what you wanted! We were told the walk to our hostel took 10 minutes, but they did not take into account that we would be carrying 10 months worth of stuff on our backs and that the Fijians had moved all my straps so they were not set up properly! Plus we had eaten something really nasty the day before and neither of us felt well. 30 minutes of walking up several hills later we a...

Helloooo well this might be a long blog as we have 2 weeks worth of Fiji to talk about!!! First off lets start by saying Bula! Which is Fijian for hello and a general greeting that everyone uses! You say Bula to everyone...sometimes you say Bula Bula.... sometimes you say Bula Bula Bula!!! It made us laugh and also feel so welcome. The Fijians are so friendly and nice. We landed in Nadi on 24th of November and boy it was hot!!! The hottest place both me and Emm...

Hi all! We are just about to leave Auckland for Fiji in a few hours so decided it was time to do a quick rundown of our time here. We are returning to New Zealand to travel round the North Island in a couple of weeks, but our time in Auckland will be minimal. We have found Auckland to be a pretty cool city- many people say that they do not like the place, but i cannot see why. I would not want to stay here for too much longer, but thats because it is a dra...