Amerissit Auckland

... and will keep updating as we progress:

Sat 28/11 - Auckland to Coromandel Region - 243km
After gathering a few supplies, we left the Auckland depot around 3pm and headed towards the Coromandel Region. Due to our later than expected departure we only managed to squeeze in a walk to Cathedral Cove, delaying our visit to Hot Water beach until the following day.

Sun 29/11 - Coromandel Region to Rotorua to Lake Taupo - 358km
First stop in the ...

... the amount of time we spent there and maybe longer in New Zealand. This was just due to the amount of hype surrounding Australia, there's X amount of animals that will kill you, every student and backpacker heads there and its just a big conveyor belt of people constantly moving around the country blah blah and a few other little things. However we are really glad we didn't and thoroughly enjoyed our time there and didn't even have time to find a job to earn some extra ...

... flavour. Meet the woman who describes herself as New Zealand's.

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... and am now in The Hilton. I love it already. Own bathroom, toilet, shower, bath.... bedroom! I can't stop smiling - such a treat after sharing. It sure is going to be hard to give this up!

The balcony view to the left is out towards the North shore, straight ahead is the docks (to remind me of home) & to the right, the ...

... to pronounce. His aunt and uncle live there, its gorgeous countryside.... and they had a jacuzzi that looked over the hills and farm land, so beautiful! And they had a pet cow named Fugly which was AWESOME haha, pretty keen on cows, as we had to stop one day while driving on a country road because the cows were being transported from one farm to the next using the main highway (which by the was is one lane each way!) so ...

... programme thing I'm on) :). I tell you what, when your driving thorough the suburbs and what not it felt to me like one of those Habana towns, you know like in America, where they got the metal houses with like tropical plants growing outside lol. Everything does feel slightly aged as well, but not really in a bad way, feels like its a slightly slower pace of life? So once I got to the Hostel (ACB) I checked in and went to the room, there's 4 beds in there (bunk ...

... we had an action packed day! From Taupo we headed to River Valley, which only had 1 dorm which slept 24 of us off the kiwi bus which was fun!In River Valley, I went horse trekking for the morning (my second time on a horse ever) which was successful, as I managed to gallop for the first time and not fall off, whislt seeing fantastic scenery of the mountains full of deer and sheep being herded by the farmers and their dogs. Matt went white water ...

... over the Waikato plain. Then had thirty minutes soaking in a hot spa tub - first time for everything! Then watched a bit of the local athletics in which one of the children was competing. In the evening we all went to their holiday house on Lake Tarawera (many NZers have beach or lake houses), and again this is just a fabulous house overlooking the most glorious view across the lake to Mount Tarawera opposite. From the deck you look across ...

... include an inner-city drop-in center, homeless program, drug & alcohol services, crisis care, community services, community food program and redistribution warehouse.

It costs the Mission $3.8 million to provide these services and only 9.1% of this is government funded."

The video is of a short interview I did with one of the organizers as well as actual video of the famous Auckland City Mission Christmas Dinner that I attended on ...

this was my first journey to down under !! I buy six bottles of wine from threser wine shop and today it not operating!! so i buyed six bottles of wine and got a third off the flight price to Australia or New Zealand. but i was going to New Zealand!! so i had to pay for my ticket ...