NORTH ISLAND TOUR

Hey ho!

So its holidays since last Thursday now and I already had some nice memories that I will remember forever, because I went on the north island trip with NZ direct!

We caught the flight to Auckland and drove down with the bus all the way to wellington in about 6 days and 5 nights! Me and everyone else probably had a great great time!

Ill do everything in one post now because I already loaded the photos and it would just be extra effort to separate them and ach I don’t know whatever one tour one blog post!

AUCKLAND

Our flight to Auckland city was on Friday morning 8am. We had to wait another half an hour because some people from nelson were late..

Arrived in Auckland it was soo hot! It was supposed to be stormy and cold so no one brought summer clothing! And then It was god damn hot up there!

We had a rushed morning tbh.  (tbh=to be honest)

First we had to run down to the harbour to be on time for the activity America’s Cup Sailing! If was amazing! We went sailing for about 2 and a half hours with the best view of Auckland city and surroundings! Wow Auckland skyline is so amazing!

But windy and I was afraid to drop my camera all the time haha!

Then later on I had to find my way to the sky tower, the tallest building in new Zealand!

I had booked the stupidest and most terrifying activity ever, the skytower walk. It was so high and there were no hand rails and the platform we were walking on was so small! Also It was only me from our group because no one else had booked it! But I guess it was really worth it since I had the best adrenaline shock and the bestest view ever! No cameras were aloud though so I had to buy the photos they were taking themselves for like 30$ grrr

After that the whole group met downstairs and we went up all together again but this time on the inside platform where it was save and there was glass all around! We had such a beautiful view, it was slowly getting dark so we could see all the night lights of Auckland! I got some good photos and some less good photos since cameras hate taking sharp photos when it’s to dark J

That was the first and last day in Auckland and because it was Good Friday NO SHOP WAS OPEN NO GOD DAMN SHOP IN THE WHOLE CITY! NO SHOPPING IT WAS SO DEPRESSING NOTHING NOOOOTHING WAS OPEN OMG!

Yeah so we went to sleep and everyone was so tired! We only had two plugs to charge our phones and cameras which was really bad because everyone had to charge everything haha J In the end we managed it somehow and then went straight to sleep (I took a shower)  The next morning we had to get up really early to go on the bus to Whitianga a small town in between rotorua and auckland!

the crew on one of those sailing boats normally is 19 people, we only had 5 therefore we had to help :)

scary angle right there :)

Me with Auckland Skyline in the background

Auckland Skyline

View from the Skytower

Skytower view 

Peer, Philipp and Julius

Skytower view with Auckland bridge :) 

Auckland at Night

WHITIANGA

So the next day we arrived in this little town around mid day! We had to rush straight away to a bone carving workshop which started at 12:30pm..as I said this tour was a bit rushed because we only had 6 days time..

That workshop was about carving one of those Maori shaped necklaces. It was quite interesting and funny. But also it was so surprising that we took about 2 hours to finish our necklace. It was bone therefore the necklace is white and I think im going to give it to Lilly J its her birthday tomorrow!!

After that we went to the hostel which was called turtle cove accommodation. Weird name. Straight after that we grabbed our togs and towels and went to the hot thermal beach! It was pretty cool, except the fact that I forgot my togs (because I thought it was going to be rainy and stormy and we wouldn’t go swimming anyway) so I just took photos and went for a walk. It was pretty cool anyway because there was the most beautiful scenery I ever saw after nelson of course, beach and mountains together and an amazing reflection on the wet sand!!!

About 5 everyone went back to the bus and we drove home.. It was a late night with movies and much laughter. I went to bed pretty early and didn’t really made the effort to socialize because I was really tired and we had to get up early again the next morning to go horse riding! That was pretty slag in the end because we only walked, but it was nice scenery…we left the town at one pm in the end and made our way to smelly town Rotorua.

the beach right by our hostel :)

Bone carving workshop, first step.

everyone really concentrated..

second step..

last step :)

so many people. it was extremely crowed because it was school holidays and easter..

burchard, luckas and our tour assistant sonja in one of the self made hot pools :)

a m a z i n g 

that reflection..

ROTORUA

The next morning we arrived in smelly town Rotorua!

No one liked it. Everyone was complaining straight away about the smell, but surprisingly for everyone (except me because I was there before) the smell faded as we got used to it. We had a hostel with a pool, it was sooo cool. Everyone went in the pool and it was so nice and hot and raining! Just perfect after a long bus tour!

Rotorua was the only city were we stayed two nights. The first day we didn’t do much except lying in the pool, sorting out rooms and we went to have a nice dinner in the restaurant. Yummy!

After that we chilled in the pool until about 10:30pm and then went in out room to continue chilling and talking.

By that time the groups were pretty much made. Like who was hanging out with who and stuff like that. My ‘friend group’ for the tour was mixed boys and girls. Their names were Anna, Lisa who are from Dunedin, Peer, Philipp, Maria and Juli who are from Nelson, Hannah from Christchurch and me. We had really good times together in and after rotorua and we would stay awake until late night and keep everyone awake hahaha J

The second day in rotorua started with a rather early morning for all the people (including me) who went to hobbit land! It was exciting, so so so exciting. We arrived and then we saw all the places where the movie was filmed. We also got told some stuff about why there and all the contracts the people who owned the land had to sign. Well yeah it was incredibly exciting because now if I watch the movie ill be able to say:  I WAS THERE!!!

The same day after lunch Hannah, Anna, Peer, Juli, Philipp, Alex, Lucas, Burchard and me went to the ZORB, we rolled down a hill in massive plastic bags which was also really funny. But we had to wait so so long until it was our turn…so many people and it also was a rather nice day so everyone thought: why not do the zorb! Grrr

After the zorb we hung out in the pool (again yes) until we met to go to the maori dinner I already visited with my parents. It was pretty much the same but the bus driver was not as funny as the other one I had with my parents. BUUUT everyone including me loved the food, it was one of the best meals in ages, finally some meat and other vegetables J On the way back to the hostel we sung (mum dad if you remember) but only we the germans were singing. Without a break we would sing 99 ballons or auf einer straße nach berlin, das beste etc etc. only german songs and it was funny.

After that we hung out in the pool for another time and we stayed up until 2am J J J

The next morning unfortunately was our last morning in smelly town and we had to say goodbye. We left at 7am to go to Windy Welly and everyone was already a bit sad because we knew it was our last bus ride, the last full day together…

only photos of the hobbit land :)

complete hobbiten..

one out of 45 hobbit holes :)

and another one..

view from the top over to the green dragon..

face oak tree..

famous sign..

proud peer and philipp. small as hobbits or :p

all the nzdirect people who went to hobbit land dancing :) 

group photo (:

this way to the legendary green dragon cafe :o

beautiful..

another group photo on the stone bridge,

inside the green dragon cafe is a green dragon oho haha :) 

 WELLINGTON

The bus rides all together were pretty boring I have to say, I slept half the time and we watched quite a lot of movies. Peer and me had the back seat with 5 seats (for tall people because we could stretch out legs) and then Juli and Philipp each had a two seater on the left hand side of the bus and Lisa and Anna too but on the right side J

That bus trip was sort of really confortable because for once I was able to stretch my legs out and actual have a good sleep.

 By the way:

Anna Lisa maria and Hannah and me are girls

Peer, Juli and Philipp are boys.

Just saying in case you didn’t get it right the first time J

We arrived in wellington one hour too late so the shops were closed already, how unfortunate L But we went to a Chinese dinner and it was alright, I became better friends with Hannah and maria and now we are already talking about meeting up in nelson sometime J

After that some people went to the movies and others went to the waterfront J I went for a walk along the waterfront and we took beautiful photos J!!

It was a funny last night, we ate ice cream at 11pm and played cards J

The next morning we went to the te papa and then had some time to go shopping J!

It was a beautiful day but unfortunately we had to say goodbye to everyone..

I miss them already and im looking forward to seeing some of them again soon no matter if in nelson or in Germany J f

SEEE YOU SOOON PEOPLEEEEEE

Ps. I nearly missed my train home