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Posted by wedrowycz | 4th November 2009
Back to NZ, much less trouble at the airport.
How to get around here?
New Zealand's specialty are backpackers' buses. This is like a regular bus line crossed with a tour. You travel on a minibus with a certain route and schedule, but this bus does not take you only from A to B. There's also some Cs, Ds and Es on the way in-between. These are lookouts, short mountain walks, activities (from abseiling to zorbing), beaches... The bus driver is expected to take you around NZ and show its best. But you may also hop off at any point on the route and continue few days later on another bus which is going this way. Classic Down Under travel experiences - meeting new people, etc... - are included in the scheme.
I travelled through the North Island very quickly, without any stopovers. In short:
Close to Hahei, on the Cor
01 Oct 2004 - 06 Nov 2009
Visiting: Germany, United Kingdom, Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, Tonga and New Zealand.
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