Sunday, November 26, 2006

Rotorua, New Zealand

I cant tell you how much I love New Zealand, I'll just show you pics. A brief of my ultra short 8/9 day trip would be

Day 1: Auckland-Outdoor Pursuit Centre (OPC) off Rotorua
Day 2 :OPC-Buch Whacking,Abseiling, Flying Fox
Day 3 : Caving and Gorging (River walking)
Day 4-5: Snowball fight/Mountain Trekking and Overnight in a Trekkers Hut
Day 6: Short Drive to Turangi Town and Back to Rorotua for Fish n Chips
Day 7: Adventure Thrills and Shopping in Rotorua
Day 8: Rorotua to Auckland

Will give u details with pics k. By the way, I must mention that we did not go there alone, rather with a bunch of 20kids and another instructor. So, if you see kids in the background, they are not mine but they did make our journey to NZ spicier and sweeter at times but can be numbing (at times speechless and bloodcurling) too.... But all in all, I enjoyed getting to know them, exchanging stories and food and J their instructor, our friend.

Auckland Airport


Maori Cemetery: Has to be on a slope with the high ranking Maori on higher ground


Huka Falls


Outdoor Pursuit Centre set up by Sir Edmund Hillary


First Nz Dinner of Beef Sausages in OPC. It was so-so.


Kids making sandwiches for lunch with beetroot, mango chutney, peanut butter, salad, ham, jam, butter, mayo, carrot etc. Of course, not everything goes in the sandwich at once unless the kids make them as such, usually, we get mostly horrid sandwiches will I stepped in to make our own and for our instructor.


OPC Dining/Kitchen. Very much hostelish where u set up and clearup on your own or as a group. Cool system (cos the adults din have to do anything) :)



The kids were split into 2 groups, we followed Carrie our OPC instructor. They kids were having a briefing with her. I was the official photographer.


Bird vulturing a moth. There were tonnes of these greenish yellow moths which look like leaves. Check out my zoom man. this pic was taken from afar.

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