After a couple of weeks exploring new Zealand's North Island, we took a ferry from Wellington across the Cook Strait to a little port town on the South Island. We had read prior to departure that this was one of the most picturesque ferry rides...
As Wesley described with a smile in his last post, our visit to Hobbiton was a definite highlight of our North Island, New Zealand travels. Unlike the U.S. there are no billboards in New Zealand to guide you, telling you for miles and sometimes days that...
A few days ago my family went to a glow worm cave tour at Ruakuri Caves. At first I was kind of freaked out that I was going to see worms! But at the end of the tour I was also freaked out about how...
One of the most exciting things we have done in the last week was go to the Hobbiton Movie Set, near the town Rotorua. It is where they filmed parts of the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings movies. Once we got there we took...
An overview of our first week, starting in Auckland followed by travel up the east coast of of the North Island to the northernmost point of Cape Reinga by way of Whangarei and The Bay of Islands. -Jonathan ...
Hi yesterday we went bogie boarding down a sand hill on one of our tours. The sand was REALLY hot! We also went to the beach and the water was really cold! We also went to swim with the dolphins on a different tour, but my...