Thames Travel Blogs

Later in the morning I drove to Thames, the first big town on the way to explore the Coramandel peninsula.  The drive was a bit boring, on state highway 2 and 25, with not much to see until you reach the other side of a long bridge over the Waihou river, when you see the beautiful green hills …

I landed in Auckland early just after midnight.  Ironic really - as I had a 7 hour wait ahead of me.  My best mate, Alex,  would be arriving at approximately 06.30 to meet me, so our Kiwi Adventures could truely begin.   My excitement at this point was almost indescrible.&n…

a map and some photos of my slightly unplanned trip around the world. The map outlines the general route I took, not counting the backtracking and double visits. Currently I am scanning some photos of this trip, but be patient, there are a lot of them! Argentina - Chile - Easter Island - French Polynesia - New Zealand - Australia - Bali - Hong Kong - Macau - Singapore

Another early start this morning and Andy and I battled against the traffic to get me to the rendezvous on time. As we pulled up the driver was just finishing up the pick-up and I was lucky to load up. The bus had 10 other people on; 2 British, Tom & Helen, 5 Swedish, 4 German and 1 Korean, Eri…

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Despues de terminar de pasar el 21 en el hostel BlackJack, leyendo y haciendo un poco de kayak en el mar, me fue hacia Coromandel, que debia ser una ciudad mas o menos... resulto ser otro publo, salvo que lleno de bares para turistas. Comi algo y me fui para Thames. Thames es una ciudad, que parec…

Day 6 and we drove back into Rotorua to go to Thermal Wonderland,  which is an amazing place full of the results of volcanic activity, first we watched old lady Knoxx erupt at 10. 15, ( sh{e a Geyser ) then we wandered around the park  past bubbling mud pits, puke green volcanic lakes, ch…