NZ Travels: Kaituna River White Water Rafting
Read about my experiences White Water rafting on the Kaituna River in New Zealand. The Kaituna River is located on the North Island of New Zealand, flowing northwards and emptying into the bay of plenty. The upper section of the river here offers some of the best White Water rafting in the world and includes the highest commerically rafted waterfall at 7 metres high called the Okere Falls.
NZ Travels: Rotorua – Geothermal Activity, Maori Night and Zorbing!
Travelling New Zealand: Duration 3 weeks: Day 18 After our caving adventure in Waitomo we moved on to Rotorua. Rotorua is a city in New Zealand, North of Taupo on the State highway number 5, part of what the New Zealand tourist board calls the ‘Thermal Explorer’ highway running from Aukland and Hawke’s Bay, travelling [...]
NZ Travels: Waitomo Glow Worm Caves
Travelling New Zealand: Duration 3 Weeks: Day 17 After Taupo, the next stop was to be Rotorua towards the North of Lake Taupo and in the North Island of New Zealand. On the way however, we decided we’d visit and experience the Waitomo Glow Worm Caves. When I say ‘on the way’ the caves aren’t [...]
NZ Travels : Taupo Sky Diving
Travelling New Zealand: Duration 3 weeks: December 2008: Day 16 Before travelling to New Zealand my husband had made public a desire to throw himself out of a plane (was it something I said?) attached to a parachute… not for the faint hearted and something that really doesn’t appeal to me. So once in New [...]
NZ Travels: Napier Art Deco, Waiponga Falls and Driving to Taupo
Travelling New Zealand: Duration 3 weeks: December 2008: Day 15 We got up relatively early and started our drive to Taupo. This would be the longest drive of the third week – approx 6 hours in total, but we had decided to break it up a bit by stopping in Napier, Hawke’s Bay, on the [...]
Meeting a Lion….
One of the highlights of my honeymoon trip around New Zealand was the chance to go to Zion Wildlife Park in Whangerei and meet a lion and a tiger. You may have watched the park on the series ‘The Lionman’ which shows on Sky. It was one of our dreams to meet these amazing animals [...]
NZ Travels : Picton to Wellington Ferry Crossing & Te Papa Museum, Wellington
Travelling New Zealand: Duration 3 weeks: December 2008: Day 14 We got up earlyish as we were crossing over to the North Island today on the ferry from Picton to Wellington, about 2/3hours away. The drive was very windy so it took us a bit longer than planned, but we managed to get to the ferry just [...]
NZ Travels: Nelson and Abel Tasman
Travelling New Zealand: Duration 3 weeks: December 2008: Day 13 Woke up in Nelson to the sound of rain, not as torrential as when we were in franz joseph, but definitely rain. It wasn’t too bad a thing though as we were visiting a museum in the morning today so wouldn’t be outside in it [...]
NZ Travels: The Drive from Kaikoura on to Nelson.
Travelling New Zealand: Duration 3 weeks: December 2008: Day 12 We got up for breakfast in the lodge and reluctantly left the Hapuku lodge and tree houses. Our next stop was Nelson, approx. 4 hours away so we stared driving about 11ish and decided we would stop on the way. We got a little sidetracked [...]
NZ Travels: Kaikoura Dolphin Swimming & Hapuku Lodge
Travelling New Zealand: Duration 3 weeks: December 2008: Day 11 We had to be up at 7am this morning, in order to eat breakfast and get to the dolphin encounter office. We managed to get up about 7.30 and there fore didn’t have breakfast except a banana, I blame the massage from the day [...]
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