Hey all, just came back from a trip around the north island of new zealand. We went to Rotorua which is a town with a very small crust over volcanos so there were geisers and steam everywhere and it smellt like rotten eggs, but pretty. We went to the geiser area and watched some maori traditional dances and leart about the maoris and then we went to the geiser & bubbling mud pits. also saw sponge bob went for a bath in the thermal pools in the area, and went to a musuem in the old baths which are now no longer functional. We then went to lake taho which is this humongous huge lake in a volcanic crator & the volcano is still active too, and we went on a sailing boat which was once owned by Errol Flynn who was an actor in the 1930s to see some maori rock carvings.
We then went to Wellington and on the way stopped over at Mt. Rapehu (sp?) which all of you would know as Mt. Doom from Lord of The Rings and the area surrounding it is Mordor.. and it looks very much like in the film. The next day we drove around and I noticed that The Frighteners was filmed in Wellington too & we drove around some streets which were in the film.. Wellington is very beautiful all the houses are on hills... The Frighteners shows the city quite well. Then we went for a long walk to see some seals and ended up walking for 2 hrs and only seeing one, which was lucky since it wasnt the season for seals in the end. Then we went to The Chocolate Fish cafe where the crew from lord of the rings reguraly dined at. The cafe has a road between the seating areas so the waiters have to cross the road and wear and there are waters crossing signs on the street.
Tomorrow we are going to a costume shop which lends out original costumes from films & tv series.
We also tried finding the King Kong (Peter Jacksons next film) set in Wellington, except it was already knocked down and the sets were being used for storage.. except we did see some destroyed giant fake trees though. possibly from the film.
well im gonna go to sleep though, just got home from a 10hr drive back to auckland from wellington which i drove half of. i also ended up driving through wellington inner city on the way there which went suprisingly well seeing that it was a strange city ive never been to before with heaps of one way streets.
Anyways im gonna stay here for another month longer so ill be back about a week before o-week (21st feb)
Seeya
love katja
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Hi
It's great to hear that u r having an awesome time. :o)
Did u end up going to Kaitire (can't spell) it's the very nothern tip of NZ and my place of birth :o)
love De
nope.. we only went down from auckland.
maybe another time, still gotta see the south island when i come again.
plus whilst we were driving from tapo to wellington we passed thousands and thousands of sheep!
lol does that REALLY surprise you?? However did u know that the ratio of sheep per man in Australia is larger than that of NZ? Just a useless fact lol.
but australia is a lot larger than nz so its more obvious here.
possums are a pest here there are about 3 possums to each person in nz cause they dont have many preditors unlike australia and they are eating & killing all the native flora and fauna which in turn is killing the native wildlife... people go out of their ways to run them over like canetoads in qld and you can buy sheep & possum fur jumpers.
another useless fact apparantly nz'ers consume more vegemite than australians...
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