Sam's Trip

Today I got teh bus to Rotorua from Auckland.

Before we left Auckland we took a side trip to Mt. Eden, which I meant to do before I left Auckland last time - I just never got round to doing it then.

It was pretty cool, you could see both of Auckland's harbours - which was good.

After a quick photo stop we set off to our next stop Waitomo.

Waitomo is famous for one thing - Caves, well 2 things - caves and glowworms.

At Waitomo I had a choice, see the glowworms or go black water rafting.

I chose seeing the glowworms as it was cheaper and I didn't fancy wearing a wetsuit... the glowworms were cool though and the caves were massive. I was over 40 metres underground at one point.

3 hours later we set off for our final destination - Hot Rocks backpackers in Rotorua.

In Waitomo a weirdo called Darren latched onto me - and ended up staying in the same dorm as Tara and I (Tara had decided to come to Rotorua as there was NOTHING in Waitomo).

Anywho weirdos aside for the moment Hot Rocks wasn't the best place I've stayed in so far - Tara and I ended up ditching the room and escaped to the Lava bar where we bumped into Beth and Vicky from Paihia along with their friends from the Stray bus - we ended up getting quite drunk with them!!!