Quest Rotorua

Welcome Everyone, I am once again off to see the world. Who ever thought I would be traveling soooo much this year, let alone in my life. So this trip is taking me through the South Pacific and South America, along with some exploration of my home, ...

Hi everyone, this travel blog will be used to document the adventures of me and Kate over our six month trip around the World undertaken in 2007. Destinations, LA (3days), Hawaii (7Days), Fiji (7days), New Zealand (56 Dyas), Tazmania (6 Days), Oz (56 ...

Hello one and all, This here travelogue is an ongoing diary of the round the world trip im currently embarking on with a friend, sam (aka smeesters). Our travels take us from South America, through NZ, OZ, Asia and dubai(hopefully). Ill be using this ...

Welcome to our travelogue, we hope you enjoy following our adventures from India through to Brazil. We look forward to hearing from you also while we are away, so dont be a stranger. Speak Soon Dan & Michelle

... journey. I fell asleep for the rest of our journey so nothing else really happened.  When we arrived after 4 hours of driving. Rotorua defiantly lived up to its name SMELLY TOWN, everything smells of sulfur. We then went to a park where we saw a ...

Came into Rotorua tonight. After checking in to HotRock backpackers, myself and 13 other Stray travelers went to Slim's Cultural Night. We were met by a very nice Maori family that were open to sharing about their culture with us. We got to enjoy the ...

Kia Ora from Rotorua, a town in New Zealand's north island. Since our last blog we've been up to all sorts of stupidity so where should I begin? Let's try Dunedin. We signed off last time intending to visit the Cadbury factory and go on a wildlife ...

... ! We went to Huka falls after, this was a strong heavy falls more than we can imagine. We checked in our hotel at Quest in Taupo and proceeded to the town to get some souvenirs. We had dinner at Lavarock cafe which serves Stonegrill and it was just wow. ...

... in Wellington with Erin & Scott, Calvin & Leanne was AWESOME with lots of eating, drinking & being merry. (thx Scott & Erin!!!) Rotorua is a very cool place - the spiritual home of the Maori people and an amazing geo-thermal wonderland of geysers, ...

... of the Shire those are hard to find. She suggested the library as those usually have free Wi-Fi. We located the Rotorua Public Library and parked outside but could not connect.  Defeated, we went into the i-Site (information site) next door and ...

... a big lake that had an island in the middle and for some reason it reminded me of a turtle. :o) We stayed over at Rotorua and Friday hit the road to head up to Whitianga which is on the Coromandel Peninsula.  We could tell we were ...

... inevitably was captured with photos. Judge for yourself how amusing it was! Anyway, we packed up a lunch and headed off to Luge in Rotorua. I had no idea what 'Luge-ing' actually was but went along for the ride. We got there, got kitted out (Laura and I ...

... an earthquake. Road trolley to upper city and visited a botanical gardens established in 1868.  Nice, mature trees. Off to Rotorua tomorrow.  This is the site of all the sulphur activities in the area. DWD for the excited group. ...

... the tracks enjoying the cool green gardens until arriving at the beautiful rose garden and tea house.  If I thought the roses in Rotorua were spectacular, the rose gardens here left them in poor second place.  I can’t find the words to ...

The trip from Rotorua to Napier was extremely scenic. It took 3.5 hours and it did rain all the way and we had limited view of lake Taupo which was a shame, but it got brighter as we got towards Napier.  The forest areas and hills are just stunning, ...

... de sérénité bienveillante et donne l'impression que le temps ici coule plus lentement qu'ailleurs. Alors que nous nous adaptons à ce rythme, il est temps de commencer à planifier le voyage à proprement parlé. Notre prochaine étape sera ...

... day off with a simple meal of prime beef burgers lovingly cooked by Lynn on the free camp barbie. Wednesday 20th January 2010: Rotorua Without any early morning phone calls we were able to perform our usual daily campervan routine: one of us goes to ...

...   Fell in love with Sulphur City....  ....ran in the Redwoods, made friends at the Funky Green and skydived over Rotorua... We crayfished (badly) with Esther on the East Cape....  The Van Dyks spoiled us rotten in Auckland, where we ...