Magic Bus New Zealand

after 2-3 years of wanting to go and planning to get there paul finally sets off for New zealand on feb 15th for a little over a month. on arrival in kiwi land i will be boarding the magic bus and travelling around the two islands taking in cities ...

I woke yesterday morning with a sense of both excitement and sadness. it was my last day in New Zealand. I boarded the Magic bus with a desire to absorb every last detail of scenery and scent that would pass me by. I wanted to take it all in; take it ...

... is not much, and very small, however it does have the Speights brewery, so had the required brewery trip. At Greymouth I joined the Magic Bus which travelled up the coast to Franz Joesph Glacier.  Stayed an extra day to do the full day hike on the ...

After a few days in Queenstown I joined the magic bus again across to Dunedin, which is based on Scottish towns, it was even wet and windy when I was there.  I wouldn't reccommend it, except for the afternoon trip out to the Peninsular to look at ...

... and walked round the town a bit on the day I arrived whilst also booking a little tour round the South islands called the Magic Bus. I didnt bother with the Kiwi Experience because I heard it was full of really young people getting pissed all the time and ...

... on the top of my travel list at that time, besides what I already mentioned. Meeting Mikaila, a foreign exchange student from New Zealand probably contributed. Maybe also some pictures I saw and the fact that I could get around with my English pretty ...

... ... Bridget Jones Diary Two. Great for Rach, torture for Mick! 2nd December 2004 Auckland Decided to book ourselves onto the Magic Bus for our time in New Zealand, this is a bus system that runs around the island with a hop on hop off policy, it has ...

... the evening by watching Alfie at our favourite cinema, the Regent. Early night as tomorrow we travel to Brisbane in Austrailia! In summary New Zealand has been fantastic, the scenery is probably the best we've seen so far on the trip. It's been a great ...

... we managed to go quad biking, however compared to the first two times this was quite lame but we did see the oldest tree thingy in New Zealand and great views of an island owned by a german - bought for $2 million - 600 000 pounds. We then went on a ...

... my hostel where I very proudly showed Dan my DVD and didn't even cry at the end bit. We then jumped on the Magic Bus and met our new driver "Cookie" (that's his name, rather than my description) and retraced our previous route to Rotorua, or 'Rottenrua' ...

... try and record much of what I know now about Kiwi history. Oh, there are no kiwi fruit trees here...the nickname for people from New Zealand comes from the native bird, the kiwi, which is a nocturnal bird that can't fly and has nostrils at the end of ...

... 2 more whales called Tono and Noodle (so called because he always spends exactly 2 minutes on the surface so is named after New Zealand's well-advertised 2 minute noodles) and we also saw another whale off in the distance. They were so amazing to watch ...

... bird, rather than New Zealander! - and an alien inside a phone box next to his broken down spaceship! Bruce also explained New Zealand's good relationship with Australia, so good in fact that Australia had sent a load of their convincts over to build ...

... that he was a stranger to the truth when he claimed our breakfast stop sold 'the best eggs and bacon in the whole of New Zealand!' every single day and his arrival times were always 'twenty one minutes past' which ever hour took his fancy. Even ...

... of Bali, it was time to go to mid-winter New Zealand. I flew from Bali to Singapore for a layover, then on to Auckland, New Zealand on a 10 hour overnight flight. It was quite turbulent most of the time, but went quite well overall. I met a mother and ...

... jumped back on the bus and carried on our journey. Along the way our driver 'Thumper' was giving us a commentary on Auckland and New Zealand and Maori legends as well as letting us all know how the whole magic bus thing works. We stopped once briefly in ...

... road however I got pretty annoyed. This next bit is well worth reading if you are planning to purchase a similar bus pass in Australia or New Zealand. Basically it is now obvious to me that these companies rely on selling extras to passengers to make a ...