Planet Nomad Backpackers Rotorua
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Travel Blogs from Rotorua
First New Zealand (mis)Adventure!
I can't tell you much about Auckland, since I was there long enough to attend my orientation and open a bank account. Well, I suppose there was time to go out with some other backpackers for Halloween, but it's just not the same as back home. I got in too late to get a costume, but some other people were dressed up. We played some games at the …
Road Trip
T'other side of t'world
Auckland appeared in the middle of some Spanish announcement from the airplane captain, it woke me from my slumber. So, earplugs out, eyemask off, blanket folded and seat upright and down we went into Auckland..... 3-30 in the bloody morning !!!
I waited for my collection - it arrived at 8-30 - from the carhire …
Interesting smell
10th - 11th January 2012
Rotorua
Rotorua was an interesting place as you could tell you were there just by smelling the air outside. The smell wasn't as bad as i thought it would be, but it had a kind of rotten egg smell that you could also taste, this was because this is a very geothermically active area so there is a lot of …
Playing hard in Rotorua
Today (which is also general election day, so maybe not a good day for current PM Helen Clark - which turns out to be the case, John Key and the National Party now lead the government in NZ) starts with a two-hour coach journey to Rotorua, an international tourist icon (just in case you didn't know!). There are 16 lakes in the vicinity of Rotorua, …
We're on the ro to rua...
Fri 15th Uuuuuuuuurrrrrrrggggggghhhhhhhh!!! You ******? Probably, but that smell is actually the smelly geezas they got here. Sat around figuring out where we were gonna stay - decided on Nomad backpackers which was right next to the phone box! Checked in, 6bed dorms - unoccupied at the mo. Chiiiiilled then went to info place to look into white …