Hey,
Its been a few days since i last posted and xmas has been and gone. Been sooo busy the last few days since i left Auckland (Merry late xmas to everyone). Spent Xmas eve in Mercury Bay, the east coast off auckland. Been travelling with 4 other people (3 english and one german) since auckland and having a great time. Went to some wicked beaches there. Nearly got swept away in the sea thou....bit dangerous and cut all my back arms and legs up. im fine though. Xmas day i headed to Rotorua on the kiwi experience bus. We explored some awsome river and then had a bbq and swim at the hostel before going out for a few xmas drinks. Went white water rafting yesterday. Was unbelievably good fun. Went through 13 rapids and 3 waterfalls...one which was 7m....i was absolutly bricking it but got some great photos on a cd from it. After that we went to see a maori culture show...basically meeting the native maories (tatoo faced people) and they did some crazy dancing and scary face pulling (like the new zealand rugy team do before a game). Had a xmas roast dinner with them and saw some awsome live tribal music.
Today was quite interesting to say the least. Saw glaziers and lava pools which was awsome though stank of runny eggs. Then Went to see more maouri culture and me and a few other guys had to learn the traditional dance used by the ancient maori warrioirs before battle....and later had to perform this dance in from of about 200 people...was unexpected though pretty funny. After we went to Whitianga explored some ancient caves and saw thousands of glow worms. Now at a new hostel getting ready for a pizza. the weather is amazing at the moment.
Tommoro we are heading to Taupo further south of the north island and ....urm....basically signed up to do a 15000 ft sky dive. Cant wait...though a tad nervous. And the day after doing a 10 hour walk through some supposidly amazing land of some sort...so....yea pretty busy....but great fun.
I hope to post shortly...if i survive the sky dive...haha!!
x
