Rotorua

30/4/10

Left Auckland – was glad to say goodbye to it to be honest. Not too keen on spending any prolonged amounts of time in the cities. Our new tour guide was a cool Maori guy called Arangi. Got to know a few of the people on the bus and stopped off at a few little places on the way – a giant bottle (?) and drove through where they filmed Lord of the Rings (impressed arn’t you!!) :)

We arrived in Rotorua and booked myself into the Kiwi Packa hostel which was actually realllyyy cool and mainly run by maori people. I decided to spend two nights here as I wanted to go to the Kiwi Reservation and go Luge-ing the next day (all will be explained tomorrow) Spent evening chatting to a cool Columbian guy I met called Simon and spent the evening exchanging music on our laptops and chatting.