It is Sunday morning, Jan. 27 (8:45am). Yesterday, my cousin and her friends arrived in Auckland and we met up at the hostel. This is my first hostel experience and it's a great one. We have a 4-person room all to ourselves and everything is clean. We spent the afternoon planning our trip and our intinerary includes caving, Maori experience, hot springs, whitewater rafting, skydiving...
We decided to leave earlier than originally planned so that we can have more time in the South Island. I've heard that is where most of the cool stuff is. We will be doing some grocery shopping before heading out in about 2 hours. We have rented a van complete with dvd player, beds, camp bbq, cooler, blankets. It's a nice van....a little tight in the back but it's a good thing we're all tiny girls!
Today, we will be going to Rotorua for a Maori experience of hangi, which is a traditional meal that is cooked for hours in the ground. Oooo, I've been looking forward to this since I heard about it!
And so, the adventure begins! Yay!
4 comments:
Wow! Cool that your roadtrip is underway!!
Really excited for you. Hope you'll take some beautiful shots.
:) al
hey, just looked at the NZ map, what's your planned route? I see that the three major cities are auckland, wellington, and christchurch. will you be stopping in the latter two?
outside of those (boring) names, i see many more interesting maori names.
cool! have fun eating food that's been buried... :)
sounds like you're just beginning a wonderful adventure! looking forward to reading about what happens next. :)
Yes, I will be stopping in Wellington and Christchurch (that`s where I`ll be flying out of). Hopefully, we`ll have time to go down to Queenstown too (NZ`z pride and Joy - also where LOTR was filmed).
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