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!
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| the crew on one of those sailing boats normally is 19 people, we only had 5 therefore we had to help :) |
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| scary angle right there :) |
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| Me with Auckland Skyline in the background |
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| Auckland Skyline |
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| View from the Skytower |
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| Skytower view |
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| Peer, Philipp and Julius |
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| Skytower view with Auckland bridge :) |
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| 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.
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| the beach right by our hostel :) |
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| Bone carving workshop, first step. |
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| everyone really concentrated.. |
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| second step.. |
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| last step :) |
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| so many people. it was extremely crowed because it was school holidays and easter.. |
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| burchard, luckas and our tour assistant sonja in one of the self made hot pools :) |
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| a m a z i n g |
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| 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 :)
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| complete hobbiten.. |
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| one out of 45 hobbit holes :) |
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| and another one.. |
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| view from the top over to the green dragon.. |
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| face oak tree.. |
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| famous sign.. |
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| proud peer and philipp. small as hobbits or :p |
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| all the nzdirect people who went to hobbit land dancing :) |
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| group photo (: |
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| this way to the legendary green dragon cafe :o |
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| beautiful.. |
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| another group photo on the stone bridge, |
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| inside the green dragon cafe is a green dragon oho haha :) |
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
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SEEE YOU SOOON PEOPLEEEEEE
Ps. I nearly missed my train home
