Kingsgate Hotel Hamilton
100 Garnett Avenue Hamilton, North Island, New Zealand
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First Day in NZ
I went to NZ to home stay for 12 days in August.
We took Cathay Pacific Airlines to Hong Kong, first.
And then, we transfered to Auckland airway at Hong Kong.
These ways are most cheep from Nagoya (Central Air) to Auckland.
But they takes time.We took first airplane at about 10:00 (JP time).
We arrived Auckland at …
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On the road to Hamilton
... this activity twice once solo and the next time in pairs. You would think you go head-over-heels but in fact you essentially stay in one position all the way down the hill. The water inside the zorb helps keep you in one position unless you are Julian who was flopping all around me. Check out the video.
We had a short stay in Hamilton with our main purpose ...
Surf City
... with accentuated slopes and impressive rock formations all around. We were buzzed several times by a small plane that appeared to spraying something, but there no crops to be seen. Whatever it was doing, they must have taken off from some way away as there was not a flat spot to be seen for take off and landing for the 40+ km that we followed this track before being returned to civilisation.
We checked into our Raglan campsite in the late afternoon, and after a quick ...
Hamilton
... pet lambs...sooooo cute!!
After the exciting day out with the hobbits, we headed into Hamilton town and did some ice skating. It was really disappointing though which was a shame. The rink itself wasn't cleaned up properly so there was loads of excess ice on top of the rink which made it really hard to skate so we didn't stay there long as it was also freezing!!!
The next day we left Hamilton and headed back to Auckland to get some proper sightseeing ...
To surf or not to surf?
... so we checked into our accommodation and the people who wanted to surf went off to the beach. I have to say it didn't really appeal to me seeing as it was freezing cold, blowing a gale and raining. I dumped my bags in the dorm I was sharing with Jimbo, Jan (John James) and Sam. Mambo then took the rest of us out to Bridal Veil Waterfalls for a walk. It was really beautiful and luckily the rain kept away. We took loads ...



