New Zealand - What to Expect

Go to the Blue Ice Cafe, drink lots of whatever you drink eat the great food then hop in a chopper do the overland Glacier tour then get out go to the info centre get tickets for a horse ride and do the sunset beach tour. Than stay at the YHA or any of the other great venues. Rafting is also a hit you can fly into the alps get dropped off and do anything from 1-3 day tours. Avoid the new climbing wall and talk to the locals because they know where to go, make sure you meet a guy called Scumbag aka Greg Brown and you will be the luckiest person in the world. Also the best things are 30km before hand in HARI HARI because thats where the Wildside backpackers is get the hut out the back and stay with Dan and Kath for as long as you want, suggested minimum is a month.

Take a good amount of money either in the way of an EFTPOS card, credit card or debit card. There is soooo much to do in and around Tauranga. The food is great and the nightlife isnt bad either. Try Valentines Restaurant on the wharf. It's really good value.

All Kiwis should experience Stewart Island at least once in their lifetime so to all international and nation wide travellers - go see for yourself! The seafood is some of the purest most succulent in the whole of Aotearoa, the paua are the creamiest and most delicious when cooked on a piping hot char-brick at one of the waterfront restaurants there. Take your camera and try absolutely everything on offer! It's a fantastic, mysterious, beautiful place! And we have it right here ... on our back doorstep!

just around the corner at ohiwa is an awesome as camping ground right by the beach

We've been to the Coromandel Penisula about 2 weeks ago now and i liked it a lot. But you really need a decent car to see the best bits. Coromandel town is pretty quaint with a few nice cafe's that do a good breakfeast. Heading further north it gets really rugged and beutiful rough gravel roads with nothing but stunning crimson pohutukawa trees to keep you from going over the cliffedge. Just find the end of the road and enjoy the emptyness, the end of the world feeling.

My hometown, and a fantastic wee place it is. Not the most pumping off places, on a world scale, but friendly people, plenty of good food and a handful of good restaurants - particular the Two Chefs and the local Indian. On State Highway 3, it's a nice stopover. Have dinner, go to the local pool, or a beach (Ohawe is nice, or Waihi), then take the surf highway (#45) around the coast to New Plymouth.

Not much going on in Bluff-yummy oysters if u like your seafood, the ex paua shell house and a nice walk around the coast from the road sign. The best thing it's got going for it is you can catch a boat to Stewart Island from there-but remember to take a sick bag! (foveaux strait can get pretty rough)

One of my favourite Northland towns-a quaint little town centre with a superb Italian restaurant, boutique cinema and loads of foodie factory shops on the road out. The YHA is a good place 2 stay and if you're into your history u can go check out the pa and stone store just outta town. Beware summer holidays thou-the one way bridge at the end of town can get crazy queues and the supie in town is madness!

awesome place, my home town! dont go to waiwera hot pools. u will just get sick. gross. but do visit the cbd and head to the sky tower. orbit is a revolving restaurant which has the best views of the city. but u have to make a reservation. go down to the viaduct friday and saturday nights for a sweet night out on the town.

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