A new country - New Zealand: After our wonderful times in Australia, it was time to get excited about the rest of our amazing adventure; starting in New Zealand. A nice easy and on time flight saw us arrive in Auckland, in New Zealand’s North Island at 11pm, yet to book ourselves a hostel. We phoned a couple of places from my Lonely Planet guide and a place was booked for us at a Base backpackers; knowing form our previous visits to such hostels it would be a cool and nice place. We didn’t really have much intention of staying in Auckland too long as we were very keen to get ourselves to Queenstown, the ‘extreme sports’ capital of New Zealand, perhaps the world?! We were also very keen to get there before the ski season
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