hello all,
nothing exciting happened inbetween leaving taupo and getting to auckland. we stopped in smelly rotorua and hobbiton very briefly and had the richest ice chocolate e-v-e-r. greg had the worst sausage roll ever too. aboslute shocker.
we had planned to go to hard rock cafe tonight for our last meal but it turns out there isn't one in auckland, like we originally thought. so we went for an italian instead, which was really nice. it was a good way to end a great trip.
well this is weird, it's our last proper night in new zealand, tomorrow night we're staying at an airport hotel. this will be our last post whilst in new zealand too... we'll try and sneak a couple in when we're at sydney and singapore airports, but there wont be any photo's now til we get back.
in answer to peoples comments, our hair is a bit lighter, gregs more so, but we still sound the same. since kaikoura we haven't really taken many photo's at all, nevermind of ourselves, because after kaikoura we were just re tracing our steps, we took lots of photo's of those places on the way down. you can look forward to photos of us both sat around waiting at various airports on thursday and friday. we have a 7 hour wait in sydney so we'll see what we can come up with.
don't think there's much more to say, hopefully the sun will be out tomorrow as the hotel near the airport has a pool, otherwise we'll be sat watching tv.
well, see you all in a few days!!!! x x x
Showing posts with label rotorua. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rotorua. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Sunday, February 18, 2007
mercury bay to waitomo
hello everyone,
all is going well in new zealand, no photo's again though, sorry. once we get to a place where we can upload some we will do, though it takes up a lot of time so even then it may only be a few... you'll have to wait till we get back for most of them.
anyway, from mercury bay we set off to rotorua, which smells of eggs. it's a geothermal area, with a large amount of sulphur, boiling mud pools and geysers. quite cool but also very smelly. we also got to see a kiwi bird while we were there.
on the way to rotorua we stopped off to go on a walk in an old gold mining area. we got to walk through the old gold mining tunnels and saw some amazing scenery.
we spent our evening in rotorua at a maori cultural evening. we visited a typical maori village where we saw and learnt all about how the maori's originally lived, and got to see lots of dancing, singing, chanting and even the infamous haka. we had a meal cooked traditionally in a 'hangi'. an earthed maori oven, the food is cooked under the ground over hot volcanic rocks. the meal was really nice.
today we drove up to waitomo and have just been chilling out in the sun at the hostel... suprisingly it's really hot here. pretty much the same as australia! and it's meant to be like this for the next five days. we were talking to our driver and she said that even in the south island it's still hot during the summer.
tomorrow before we head to taupo we are going black water rafting, which is basically walking through caves and then jumping in the water into a ring and paddling through the caves. there are glow worms and things to see too. should be good.
after that we head down to taupo where we are staying for three nights. while we are there we plan to do the tongariro crossing, a 17km walk where you get to see the emerald lakes and mt. doom from 'the lord of the rings'!
we'll be in touch again soon.
hope everyones well. x x x
all is going well in new zealand, no photo's again though, sorry. once we get to a place where we can upload some we will do, though it takes up a lot of time so even then it may only be a few... you'll have to wait till we get back for most of them.
anyway, from mercury bay we set off to rotorua, which smells of eggs. it's a geothermal area, with a large amount of sulphur, boiling mud pools and geysers. quite cool but also very smelly. we also got to see a kiwi bird while we were there.
on the way to rotorua we stopped off to go on a walk in an old gold mining area. we got to walk through the old gold mining tunnels and saw some amazing scenery.
we spent our evening in rotorua at a maori cultural evening. we visited a typical maori village where we saw and learnt all about how the maori's originally lived, and got to see lots of dancing, singing, chanting and even the infamous haka. we had a meal cooked traditionally in a 'hangi'. an earthed maori oven, the food is cooked under the ground over hot volcanic rocks. the meal was really nice.
today we drove up to waitomo and have just been chilling out in the sun at the hostel... suprisingly it's really hot here. pretty much the same as australia! and it's meant to be like this for the next five days. we were talking to our driver and she said that even in the south island it's still hot during the summer.
tomorrow before we head to taupo we are going black water rafting, which is basically walking through caves and then jumping in the water into a ring and paddling through the caves. there are glow worms and things to see too. should be good.
after that we head down to taupo where we are staying for three nights. while we are there we plan to do the tongariro crossing, a 17km walk where you get to see the emerald lakes and mt. doom from 'the lord of the rings'!
we'll be in touch again soon.
hope everyones well. x x x
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