Kawerau Thermal Motel Whakatane

... this decision. There was avery friendly Border collie dog at this picnic sight I stopped at. All teh cars had come and gone adn no one was calling him. So worried he might go into teh road, I took him to a local farm, who's pointed me in teh direction of the farm he was loose from. The owners were quite laid back about the fact he'd got loose but I was glad he was back safe.
Opotiki, Gisborne, New Zealand theroad2

... we were advised it ran every hour, they had forgot to mention it didn't run at 12.50pm due to lunch. This meant we had to wait around for an hour until the next shuttle which was not going to be enough time to complete all the things on our list. We did have another day so weren't too worried, it would have just been easier if we could have done everything in one go. In the hour we had to wait we decided we would just go Zorbing today and do the other activities ...

Our adventure continued as we left Wellington for our North Island tour. We piled back in the bus and made our way to Napier for the first two nights. We stayed in a Maori marae and spent time with the elders learning about the gods and ancestors represented in the house, the basics of flax weaving, songs and games, and the Maori ideology behind resource conservation. We all slept on mattresses on the floor and ate together, which made it feel like a ...

Ummm - sure the email from my dad said they were arriving - oh well !!!!! try and find them tomorrow when they get in from Hong Kong. Had a good walk along the river game of mini golf a new zealand ice cream - perhaps four times bigger than anywhere else in the world. Then meandered our way up to Hot Water Beach

... around which is Te Puia. It is a geological park, Maori village, and arts and crafts school all rolled into one. There was even a traditional Maori dance show in a marae (Maori meeting house). We were mainly after the thermal sights. We saw some boiling mud pots and a geyser or two. The geysers are very regular and the blast for a good half an hour at a time so we spent some time in awe of them. Then we ...

... I'm not sure if it's every bus or just the one I was on, but food isn't allowed, which is actually a good idea as the bus was spotless. We did stop for "morning tea" at about 10 a.m. As we left Auckland, the landscape gradually changed to where I would have thought I was in Oregon if we'd been on the right side of the road. After an hour of familiar landscape, thing took a unique turn. New Zealand has a strange combination of normal ...

... auch, auch wenn der Rainbow Park mit seinen bunten Lichtern etwas kitschig war (aber bei Te Po gab es nur wenig zu sehen, da der Geysir dormant war). Jetzt geht es nach Wellington, Vertraege unterzeichnen. Ausserdem muss ich von einer australischen Firma einen Background Check durchfuehren lassen, glauben die mir etwa nicht?-) Und eine Immigrations-Agentur kuemmert sich um das Workvisa, das sollte hoffentlich dann ganz gut klappen ...

... Wanderwege, der hiesige fuehrt an der Steilkueste entlang (in das naechste Stranddorf) und dann durch Waelder im Landesinneren wieder zurueck. Als ich wieder im Hostel war, hat es angefangen zu regnen, zum Glueck hat es so lange gewartet:-) Gruss Ralf P.S. Fun Fact NZ is home to the only alpine parrot in the world, the Kea. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kea_(Vogel

... krant: we zijn met onze foto op de society-page gekomen! Haha!!
Samen met een ander meisje van de camping ben ik donderdag nog wezen kajakken op de Pacific Ocean. Allemaal verlaten strandjes en vogels overal... En natuurlijk nog lekker op het prive strand gezeten.... een flinke afdaling, maar de rust en de zee waren het waard. En mijn eerste echte duik in de oceaan genomen! In een heerlijk verwarmde baai aan het einde van een warme dag.... (worden ...

We left Waitomo in the morning heading for Rotorua. On the way we stopped at theWaiotapu geothermal area. it was pretty cool, I really liked champagne lake and its ochre ring. When we arrived in Rotorua I went to a traditional dinner called a Hangi. It was very interesting, they started by performng traditional Maori dances and rituals. This was followed by the meal which is cooked in the ground.