There is no direct flight from Samoa to the Cook Islands. Well, not anymore there isn’t.. The only option is to go via Auckland, New Zealand. Hmmm.. Sounds like a huge detour. And it is. Apart from the extra stop over, you also get to cross the international dateline twice. To make things even more […]
After 3 days in the rain, yesterday we finally woke up to a sunny sky. Just as we’re about to leave the country… but it did make our trip southbound on the west coast a lot more pleasant. The west coast of Northland is called the “kauri coast” and that’s because there’s a number of […]
The past few days have been rainy and grey; a large depression is moving across the islands. 🙁 No matter how scenic a scenic route is, it’s never much fun in the rain. We decided to drive from Rotorua to Auckland without many stops on the way. Problem is that even Auckland in the rain […]
In the last two days, we’ve been doing a lot of touristy stuff: seeing the Aranui Cave and Glowworm Cave in Waitomo, and today in Rotorua, three parks: Wai-O-Tapu, Waimangu and Te Puia. Lots of colourful bubbly (hot) lakes such as the champagne pool and even better, mud pools. We are lucky to have our […]
