Whangarai and the Poor Knights Islands
Back in Auckland today after our little trip to the inventively named Northland, which is… you guessed it, up in the north of New Zealand! For the first 2 days we stayed in Whangarai and took a day...
View ArticleBay of Islands and Cape Reinga
After our 2 day stay in Whangarai we moved further north to the Bay of Islands. We stayed in the tiny little seaside town of Paihia where we visited the Treaty House where we brushed up on our New...
View ArticleHot Water Beach
Hot Water Beach is amazing. There are 2 underwater (hot) streams flowing beneath the beach that become uncovered 2 hours either side of low tide. Then all you need to do is search for the hot spots by...
View ArticleRotorua
We only ended up spending 2 days in Rotorua, but we managed to squeeze a fair amount into them. Tuesday morning we spent on the “luge”. It was much more fun than we anticipated with Friedi fairly...
View ArticleWaitomo and the Glow Worm Caves to Greymouth
For the first time in a long time we haven’t been taking many pictures! It started in the Glow Worm Caves (which were amazing!!) where you were not allowed to take photos. Then we took the overlander...
View ArticleFranz Jospeh Glacier
Visiting the Franz Joseph Glacier was definitely one of the highlights of the whole travels! We were extremely fortunate that we had a day without a cloud in the sky, meaning that we could visit the...
View ArticleQueenstown and Wanaka
Just a very short entry. We visited Queenstown and Wanaka recently. In Queenstown we had another go at Luging, and saw some great views of the lake and played the most amazing mini golf ever! In Wanaka...
View ArticleDunedin and Christchruch
So here come the last photos from New Zealand. Dunedin – We saw penguins, seals and albatrosses (only the baby ones, but they were still bigger than any bird i have ever seen!). The penguins were...
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