Last days in New Zealand; we spent them in the Northland region. Somehow we are leaving New Zealand with mixed feelings and impressions, but our last days were amazing. A mix again, but basically a lot of nature and even some wildlife, this time a very special one (on the […]
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After our tour to White Island we were a bit without a plan, mainly for the reason that you must expect delays due to weather and be flexible. Surprisingly this was not needed in our case, so we decided to use the time and explore the Coromandel peninsula a bit […]
White Island; do you also have pictures in mind of beautiful white sand beaches, palm trees and coconut drinks? Well, that is not exactly what it is all about. Okay a bit of luxury is involved, if you chose the helicopter as type of transportation… By the way, highly advisable […]
Waitomo, on New Zealand’s North Island is one of the places to visit if you want to get some insights into the underworld and especially if you want to see some glowworms. Well, there are also other places and glowworms are not even worms but rather larva’s of a fly, […]
What to write on this? Hm, if you know the movies and or the books, talking about “Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit”, just enjoy. If not, well go buy some books or watch the movies, or just enjoy without doing so (because it is still nice). 🙂 Since […]
Still being geothermal active in the area around Rotorua, but there are also plenty of other things to explore. Redwood Tree Walk Redwood are huge trees as you might know, so for us clearly a must-see going here and walking inbetween the trees using the suspension bridges they installed here. […]
On the North Island of New Zealand the volcanic activity is much more visible and in the middle of the island, in the area of Taupo plenty of geothermal active areas are waiting for visitors. In some of them even kind of spa resorts are embedded, honestly for us too […]
After first days on the North island we decided to visit Cape Kidnappers as it is one oft he largest main land colonies of Gannets in the world and for us a must see. Unfortunately a huge landslide in 2018 caused the beach to be closed since then, so there […]
Cape Palliser, Southern most point of New Zealand’s North Island and our retreat from busy Wellington after arriving with the ferry the same day. But let’s go one step back, South Island the day before. Waking up with the same storm we went to bed the evening before, still we […]