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Hey all!<br />I managed to get some internet time! I did so much since the past mail that I don't know if i can put it all in here, I will try and keep it short since I know it's boring to read Large mails.<br />I suggest you read this in 2 parts!! it is just too long.<br />

Second Update from NZ

Omer Ramote
2006-04-02 21:57:20

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Hey all!
I managed to get some internet time! I did so much since the past mail that I don't know if i can put it all in here, I will try and keep it short since I know it's boring to read Large mails.
I suggest you read this in 2 parts!! it is just too long.

Anyway the last time I wrote we just arrived in auckland, we were supposed to split, and we did but only 2 left for the beginning since 5 others wanted to do the same thing. So I stayed in the van with the guy that bought it from us together with 3 other people from before.

We decided to go to Coromendell, it's a pennisulla to the east of auckland. There we stayed one night in Camping, which was great because there was no rain, can't think about doing it in the rain with our lousy 35$ tents.
The next day we finally did a walking track, it was a 1 day simple track, about 6-7 hours walking.
It had nice view, mainly jungle like but not amazing. The girls had a bit of problem doing it!.
I was happy to finally do some walking in NZ!.
After that track we went along the coast to Hot water beach, where you can dig your own spa pool in the sand of a beach.

There were a lot of people there, so we didn't stay there too long, but it is an amazing beach and it was funny seeing all the Nzers digging their little pools.
We slept at another town still in coromemdell to rest from the long trip and then the next day headed to rotrua.
Rotrua is a bigger city and tourist attraction, there are geyzers and hot spas everywhere there. We went to a paying spa and stayed there for a few hours, the place was packed with asian people, but It was great fun anyway, very relaxing.

Then we went to our HIT hosts for the night, this was really amazing they live in a farm in the middle of no where, their house if all from wood, very well taken care of, they have everything in their kitched and offered us a great ...