Author Archives: Keiran28

We started off what we thought would be our last day with a nice complimentary breakfast at our hotel in Auckland. After filling our stomachs and filling our bags we headed downstairs to the included shuttle service to Auckland international airport. We had no issues boarding our three and a half hour flight from AucklandContinue reading “Day 39 – Auckland to Sydney.”

Today we had the intention of sightseeing within the Auckland CBD. Our first challenge was to find an appropriate place to park in order to catch some form of public transport to the city. Our first attempt at doing this failed as we found ourselves, thanks to Google maps, at a train station in anContinue reading “Day 38 – Auckland”

Today, efficiency was meant to be the name of the game but alas it was not meant to be. We planned on making an early ish departure from Taupo Bay and this, we managed to do, but here on out things went a little awry. We decided on taking a rather direct route to AucklandContinue reading “Day 37 Taupo Bay to Auckland”

Equipped with the paper map from our campsite and having no agenda other than to reach Milford Sound we set off around 8:30 this morning. Upon departing we didn’t really know what to expect besides this was one of the ‘most scenic drives on the planet’. What we discovered blew our minds: a multi kilometreContinue reading “Day 13 – Manapouri to Te Anau via Milford Sound (SNOW!)”