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Spare tyres, full moons, toilet seats
... especially with Ria's new credit card arriving. A drama in itself though: Ria asking the lady at the hostel reception if she had any post as she was expecting her credit card - the lady then stood by the packets of cereal and the spaghetti hoops asking what we wanted. WTF!? How the hell does "is there any post for Ria Carroll translate into "can I have some spaghetti hoops please"! I wouldn't mind but she was English. The "healthy day" continued by taking a trip to Mrs Higgins ...
Busy as a bee could be!
... at the station before you get the train to the Airport. Despite the inevitable anxiety of leaving our baggage a good 4-5 hours before we would board the plane and a good 60km from the airport we decided we would trust that these people know what they're doing and use the service (more because we're lazy and the bags are heavy than anything else!).
We had a rather bumpy flight on a rather old and rickety Boeing 777 and landed in Auckland ...
Tongariro Crossing
... and followed a sign for an old Maori house site. The house site wasn't very exciting, but this male paradise duck kept following us around. He was super friendly, Charles pet him and he even let him pick him up (jenice, sorry I can see your disapproving head shake already). And even as we walked around, Charles would call him and he would start running to keep up with us. I'm sure it was all cause people feed ...
The Calm before the Storm
... their way down, I cheerfully smile at the lady who looks near-death-tired….losing light already in the late afternoon, I wonder if this is such a good idea. Gerald suggests we turn at the bush and go all the way up another day….all I needed to do was ask if he thought he couldn’t make it, and we were promptly continuing our way up! ;)
The pathway through the bush was stunning: narrow deep gulleys forming natural pathways with steep steps of ...
The sky's the limit in adrenaline heaven
... br> The following day we were heading deeper into the geothermal zone to Rotorua, where the whiff of rotten eggs becomes more pronounced, the steaming fumaroles more prevalent and even pavements in the town itself have cracked to reveal bubbling volcanic activity below. On our way there, we sampled some of the most dramatic and colourful examples of how this activity shapes the landscape at Wai-o-Tapu. A series of walkways leads you through an astonishing ...
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