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An Eventful Journey upto Paihia
So the time came to depart the idyllic Kaikoura at 9am and I set out on the long journey to the northernmost region of NZ, the 'Bay of Islands', and more specifically to the town of Paihia. I waved goodbye to the 'Kiwi Experience' bus which I had been using to travel around on for the previous 6 weeks and moved to a more independent method of backpacking. I was effectively fending for myself now. The bus had served me well and I would certainly have no ...
A bushwalk
... the heavy rain that made a lot of damages and whats common here).
In Pahia we made a special bush walk and walking between the mangrove trees. We were fascinated by the huge trees and many different plants and that there is hardly no insects here. Lucky are we! Frederick and Mr. Sunshine were very fascinated by the hundreds of small crabs living in the mud under ...
New Zealand road trip part two
... built steps or scrambling up rock faces in some places we could finally see our hut and our home for the night. It was a red wood hut set into the mountain with two rooms of bunks, a lounge and a kitchen. The bunk rooms have room for 20 people, ten on the top and ten on the bottom. There was also one nutter who slept otside and a couple of others camping but then they would have had an awesome display of stars for their efforts. There were patches of snow for us to walk through ...
The short dictionary for the North Island
... THE BUG בה ישנתי עם אבא לפני 7 שנים.
מחר, שבת, אנחנו יוצאי 01; ל-3 ימים לטרק קליל באיזו 12; הר ארתור.
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Pretty Paihia
... cloudy in the morning. However, that didn't deter our very enthusiastic guide. Our first stop (at like 10am) were these huge sand dunes...but rather an merely look at them and take photos we all had a go at sandboarding down them. Despite the initial cold it was really fun - you can pick up a hefty amount of speed whilst racing headfirst down a steep sand dune, with only your toes as breaks!! The hardest part was definitely the long climb to the top of the dune, but it ...