I have been waiting to do this post until I got photos onto my laptop...but that hasn't happened yet and if I wait too long I'll forget everything.
So here it is, the summary of the North Island of New Zealand. On March 1st we took the fairy from the south island to Wellington, even our campervan came with. We spent 10 days on the north island. The weather continued to give us a bit of trouble here. We wanted to do the Tongariro Crossing (aka Mordor) which is a full day hike through some very diverse and gorgeous New Zealand scenery, but the weather called for gale force winds and snow fall so they weren't letting anyone on the crossing. So we continued onto Lake Taupo and spent a night there. From Lake Taupo we drove to Rotorua. We took a tour of the Maori hot spring village of Whakarewarewa (don't spell check that please) which was really cool. The next day we went on a tour of the Hobbiton set. They found the perfect location for filming on the Alexander farm, a sheep farm in Matamata. Originially most of Hobbiton was torn down after filming of the Lord of the Rings trilogy was finished, but they had to rebuild everything for the Hobbit movies, so we got to see it all. This was also our one gloriously sunny day, so we really enjoyed it.
From Matamata we headed north to Kerikeri and Cape Reinga, and then headed back down towards Auckland.
We spent a couple days with Kevin, Heddie, and Elio in Auckland. They took us to Pacifika, an annual festival that had a lot of great food, music, and dancing. It was wonderful spending time with them! On Sunday they took us to the airport and we headed for Tahiti. We actually time travelled to Tahiti, left on Sunday and arrived on Saturday...another post to come.
So here it is, the summary of the North Island of New Zealand. On March 1st we took the fairy from the south island to Wellington, even our campervan came with. We spent 10 days on the north island. The weather continued to give us a bit of trouble here. We wanted to do the Tongariro Crossing (aka Mordor) which is a full day hike through some very diverse and gorgeous New Zealand scenery, but the weather called for gale force winds and snow fall so they weren't letting anyone on the crossing. So we continued onto Lake Taupo and spent a night there. From Lake Taupo we drove to Rotorua. We took a tour of the Maori hot spring village of Whakarewarewa (don't spell check that please) which was really cool. The next day we went on a tour of the Hobbiton set. They found the perfect location for filming on the Alexander farm, a sheep farm in Matamata. Originially most of Hobbiton was torn down after filming of the Lord of the Rings trilogy was finished, but they had to rebuild everything for the Hobbit movies, so we got to see it all. This was also our one gloriously sunny day, so we really enjoyed it.
From Matamata we headed north to Kerikeri and Cape Reinga, and then headed back down towards Auckland.
We spent a couple days with Kevin, Heddie, and Elio in Auckland. They took us to Pacifika, an annual festival that had a lot of great food, music, and dancing. It was wonderful spending time with them! On Sunday they took us to the airport and we headed for Tahiti. We actually time travelled to Tahiti, left on Sunday and arrived on Saturday...another post to come.
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