Lying on the beach at one of the countless islands of Fiji, is a nice opportunity to look back on the New Zealand adventure and sum up everything important: New Zealand, the ever green island: This is not completely true. Especially the South Island was quite disappointing in that point (but it has some other awesome things ...

We were not very lucky when we were looking for hosts in Auckland, mostly because we were looking for couchsurfers and HelpX host with only 2 hours work. That was not very successful until Damika wrote us and invited us to stay with her. We directly mentioned that we only want to work for two ...

Arrived at Jamies, we first met all his flatmates, which are apparently 4. All of them were super friendly and welcoming and Jamie invited us to go with some other friends to a bar in the town, what we accepted for sure! 🙂 There is nothing really special about the night life in Whangarei, but ...

On our way from Coromandel to Kerikeri we made a stop in Auckland in order to put some advertisments for our car in some backpacker hostel, because we wanted to get rid of it by the time we fly out. After that we drove to Kerikeri in order to receive a very warm welcome of ...

Coromandel is an around 70km long peninsula not far away from Auckland. It’s famous for its beautiful beaches including two specialities, the Hot Water Beach (description follows) and the Cathedral Cove. However, it will probably stay in our minds mostly because of our host Anthony, but one step after the other. We already found a HelpX ...

Happy that we finally could leave our hosts in Taupo but also a bit sad to say good bye to Lisa we made our way to Rotorua, the city which is in the centre of a highly active geothermal area (which is sometimes called “The Ring of Fire”. It is located on the edge between ...

Lake Taupo is the biggest lake of New Zealand. Taupo has the first commercial Skydiving provider New Zealand’s. There is the highest Bungy Jump of New Zealand. Taupo has volcanic hot springs, is location of one of the best scenes in “The Hobbit” trilogy and is only some km apart from the Tongariro National Park. ...

Arrived in Startford, the hometown of our host Chris, we first informed us about potential walking tracks. The highlight of this area is Mt Taranaki (or Mt. Egmont for the locals) in the Taranaki National Park. It is with almost 2600m the highest of a range of volcanos, most of them still active. Statistically, Mt ...

After the hard good bye with Claire we made our way to the next stop of our journey, Wanganui. On the way we made some stops at some beaches along the coast and at the Queen-Charlotte Park. The highlight was supposed to be a black sand beach, but it figured out to be rather grey… ...

We already informed us about the highlights of Wellington on the ferry, why we directly drove to Claire once we (finally) got off the ferry. As already mentioned in the last post, we were quite excited about this unknown situation but the tension eased immediately within minutes. Not only that Claire baked some cookies for ...