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Hey all,<br />I finally have time to write a mail from new zealand, and also I finally did enough things that are worth telling.<br />I arrived in auckland on the 28th, the backpacker(hostel for "metaylim") that I booked with my partner from LaMetayel was a bit outside the city, so we had to take a bus to the city.

First week details and pictures

Omer Ramote
2006-04-02 21:59:35

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so everything in her house is made to reuse water, it's hard to explain but it was a really weird experience, she also liked to talk about the messiha and how he will come and save us and we need to make peace with god before that.

It was a very intresting experience.
The next morning in kaitaia we bought a tour with a bus that cost 40$ to Cape Reinga, now this was finally something.

First Cape reinga is one of the most beautifull things I have ever seen!!!, I forgot my camera in the room but I will be sure to send some photos from there.
In addition the tour takes you to HUGE sand dunes like 15 times the size we have in israel, where you can do sand surfing.

After that you drive 90km on the beach! and stop everyonce in a while, to shower or just relax on the sand.
After this we went back to paiha, the next day we drove through the west coast back to auckland, on the way we visited some hotspring and the kauri forest, where you have some huge kauri trees(special tress in NZ) and we saw the largest and oldest kauri tree, not that special at all, even a bit dissappointing but it was still nice.
The whole trip the the north was amazing since the view all over is unbelieveable, these new zealanders are lucky, they have amazing beaches everywhere and amazing mountains and forest, you feel like you are driving through the cover of a box of choclates from switzerland.
Now we came back to auckland, we decided to sell the van since we saw that travelling at 6 although fun, is not possible, and we don't get along.

Since the van is a very good find we already have a buyer for it.
For now it seems I am going to split with another girl and get a lift with some other guy we met for 2 weeks.

Anyways, I was surprised it's really hard to start travelling alone, but I am starting to get the hang of it.
I miss Israel and I hope you are all having fun!
and if you even managed to read all of this mail(that's probably impossible) keep in touch.

Talk to you later mates,