To the Northern Pointy Bit

Trip Start Mar 14, 2006
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Trip End Mar 15, 2007


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Where I stayed
Pepper Tree Hostel
(Paihia hotels)

Flag of New Zealand  ,
Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Waiting to explore some of the northern tip of New Zealand got an early bus to Paihia yet failing to see much of the landscape along the way spending most of the journey staring at the back of my eyelids.

The Peppertree hostel where I chose to hibernate for a few days was a good BBH offering with friendly owners giving good around town advice. One thing they recommend was a walk through some mangrove mud flats to a waterfall so I decided to head that way remembering their quoted 1hour 20min return time. Two hours later I had just reached the falls. To make it worse along the way for almost the entire duration of the walk was some really loud irritating insects sounding like static for 2 hours having me reach the far end with a splitting headache. Stupid nature.

Mingling with others back at the hostel, most seemed to be lucky enough to just be starting out on their travels all healthy looking with non-faded clothes, pristine copies of Lonely Planet close at hand and well packed backpacks. No idea what is lurking in the depths of my backpack now.
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