North island tour

I just arrived back from the amazing north island tour we went to for the last 11 days.:



Day 1: We arrived at the Wellington airport yester day evening and today we did a parliament visit in the Parliament of Wellington then a shopping tour through Wellington and afterwords a visit in the famous Te Papa Museum. Tonight we had a free night, where we went to the movies.


 Day 2:We are a group of 46 people and with our managers 50, who come from Hong Kong, Italy, Sweden, Finnland, Brasil, Japan, Thaiwan, New Zealand and so on. Quite big but after a time learning names wasn't that hard anymore. The group is divided into 5 cooking groups. I am an elefant. Today we went from Wellington to Taupo where a few guys had theire Bungy Jump.On the way we saw a active vulcano. At the evening when it was already dark we went to hot water pools, which are like boiling.

Day 3:Today was awesome. We could sleep till 8 o'clock, which fells quite long for us. It was 'pick a German'-Day so everybody had to sit next to a German in the coach. We were being at the Mud Pools, which look like lakes but full over mud instead of water.





They smell trrible and the whole town called Roturua smells after this pools, but you get used to this smell after a while. In Roturua we did Luge, which is like cart riding, but without gas and just down the hill. it was so much fun. Because I am in the elefant group i had to help in the kitchen today.

Day 4: Today some of our group did white water rafting. It was amazing and so scary. When we went there they told us, that it's grade 5 from 6 and that there is a 7 meters waterfall is. How you can imagin this WAS quite scary.

In the evening we went to a typical Maori festifal  with an Hangi and this typical Maori song and dance thing. It was so awesome and I loved it.
Day 5:Today we had to get up early. After breakfast we started our 9 hour drive trough Auckland to Paihia. We arrived for dinnertime and so we could have our tea directly.After this the girls learned two Maori songs and the boys the Haka. Then we performed this at the beach, which was amazing, because it already was dark and couldn't actually see anything.Afterwords we played group games which was so much fun.
Day 6:Today we went to the 'swimming with the dolphins' cruise and although we weren't allowed to swim with them because there were so many baby dolphins, it was awesome just to see them. I the afternoon did parasailing with a sail on the boat. And because this area is called 'Bay of islands' I could see heaps of them from above. It was amazing and I could do this all day, just hanging around in the air:-D
Day 6: on this day we had our trip to the nothest point of the North Island: Cape Reinga. unforunaly it rained likeit was the end of the world and when we did sand boarding on an amazing huge sand dune, we all got totally wet and were covered in sand. So we had to go to the see having a quick cleaning up swim. It was very cold after that, because everything was already wet, but we had heaps of fun. Cape Reinga was awesome because the two seas Tasman and Pacific meet there and because i was so windi. Actually it's a place of death because people normally come there for thinking about theire dead loveones.

 Day 8: This day was awesome. We went on an boat trip to small islands for go snorkeling and kajaking there. Sadly some people had to throw up and couldn't enjoy the trip because of the stormy wetter and waves. We also went to Auckland with the coach, where we went to town and where I had the best ice cream i have ever eaten.
Day 9: Today was our last day. We went to the sky tower in the morning, where we had an amazing view of the city although it was really cloudy. After that we had a free day in Auckland and in the night we had our goodbye party with signs, group fotos, buddy gifts, pizza, and a lot of hugs.

This trip was amazing!!!!!