We woke up to a beautiful day in Nelson after camping at the designated parking site just five minutes out of the city. It was a Saturday so we decided to pay a visit to Nelson’s Saturday Market at Montgomery Square, where we had heard that we could also find a shower! The market was
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New Zealand just keeps getting better and better for us. We’ve already had beautiful beaches, rare wildlife, volcanic hotspots, breathtaking boat cruises and majestic mountains, but it was time for another New Zealand cliché… the Bungy Jump! For this we had to go to Queenstown – the birthplace of Bungy. Queenstown is nestled beside the
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Our visit to Milford Sound was without a doubt one of the major highlights of our road trip around New Zealand. Once again, it is a place that is surrounded by lots of hype, with numerous people proclaiming it to be one of the most beautiful places on earth. Well, we were about to find
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Once we’d left the Mount Cook National Park we made our way back over to the South Island’s east coast and drove to the town of Oamaru. This pretty coastal town is famous for its penguin colonies – most notably the Blue Penguin and Yellow Eyed Penguin varieties. We arrived early evening and headed to
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Today was a day that we had been looking forward to ever since we landed in New Zealand – we were off to Mount Cook National Park and were eager to see if it lived up to all of the hype surrounding it. To get there, we left our camp in Arundel and drove across
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Arriving in Picton was a momentous occasion for us as it marked our crossing from New Zealand’s North Island to its South Island! The sun was shining as our ferry pulled into the harbour and we almost felt like we were starting our New Zealand trip all over again! The first thing we did was
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After the excitement and wonder of Rotorua’s feisty thermal landscape, we were hungry for some more volcanic action! We left our camp in Taupo’s Reid Farm and headed towards Lake Taupo – a huge crater lake the size of Singapore, created by a massive underground eruption thousands of years ago. Unfortunately, the weather had deteriorated
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After visiting the Coromandel Peninsula, it was time for us to say goodbye to the coast for a while and head inland towards Rotorua. We didn’t know much about this city before we arrived there, only that it was situated within the Taupo Volcanic Zone but we weren’t sure what to expect. Well, we got to
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It didn’t take us long to get used to being part of the camper van community in New Zealand. So far our road trip had taken us through Auckland, the Bay of Islands, Waipoua Forest and the Kauri Coast, with the next stop being the picturesque Coromandel Peninsula. We set off from our roadside camp
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Today we had the longest driving day of our New Zealand adventure so far – over ten hours from one coast to the other and back again! We left Paihia in the Bay of Islands nice and refreshed after our stay at the Falls Motel camper van park and headed cross country towards the West
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