We spent the last couple of days in Auckland with our lovely “adoptive New Zealand parents”. After taking looking at the New Zealand night sky for the last time, we left Scott Road at 5am – the trip to Auckland Airport took just under an hour.
First of all: there seem to be no goats at Goat Island. We went there for the fish :-) Goat Island is a marine reserve located 90 km north of Auckland near Leigh. Is basically is not more than a big rock about 50 meters off shore. The small channel between the mainland and the […]
Jacobs Depot – the starting point of the Waitekere Ranges rain forest express – is located about 40km west of Auckland (5 km from Titigrangi village). Initially build to ensure the maintenance of pipes for the water supply of auckland the narrow train (if I say narrow, i MEAN narrow….) goes through the heart of […]
Wednesday we organized a tour with some other CouchSurfers to Whakatane (Bay of Plenty) and booked a trip to Whakaari (White Island), which is New Zealands most active volcano. The island is located about 50km off shore of Whakatane in the Bay of Plenty. The boat ride takes about 1.5 to 2 hours to get […]
When you are looking for places to stay on a trip like this, you always have several options. The probably easiest one clearly is to just look at hotels. The downside to this -except of the price – is that you will be pretty much on your own and probably won’t get to know any […]
