Northland New Zealand

This trip starts off in New Zealand where myself and 4 friends will travel around following the British and Irish Lions rugby tour. I plan to continue on to Fiji and then Australia and beyond...

... Having the laptop and the rest of my valuables even hidden in the boot, makes me a little anxious lest I'm broken into. Although New Zealand is a very safe place generally, tourists can be prey unfortunately now and then in certain places. I walk over to ...

... of New Zealand), and enjoyed a couple of cheeky drinks at the aforementioned hotel. Like pretty much every other region of New Zealand, Northland is very beautiful in very many ways and we loved it. Again, our only regret about visiting it being that we ...

... full Maori name is Hokianga-nui-a-Kupe which means the returning place of Kupe, the legendary polynesian discoverer of Aotearoa (New Zealand) about 800 - 1,000 years ago. The entrance to the beautiful harbour is guarded by two headlands that legend tells ...

... .  This time I thought I would see some of the bits I missed last time, but really I just want to travel all round New Zealand all over again!  Two weeks is no way long enough & I'm already trying to figure out how to get back here ...

... a series of extinct volcanoes which means the suburban sprawl is interspersed with lots of greenery. The scenery dominates everything in New Zealand, just about at every turn you get fantastic vistas. Most of the towns look pretty similar, built on ...

... and the camping equipment, the New Zealand adventure really begins. First stage was to head north of Auckland, to Northland. It, like just about the whole of New Zealand, is an area dominated by farming, which all takes place in an area of stunning and ...

... has very high expectations to live up to and now I'm here I can't wait to get on the road and see it all. The flight to New Zealand was easy enough, taking only 2 1/2 hours - even managed to stay awake for once for the very good film ''Out of Time" ...

... hostel and met up with someone else from work. We had a great night at The Homestead, dancing our socks off! Before leaving New Zealand our last stop was Auckland for a night. We stayed at Ponsonby Backpackers which was really nice and for my last ...