Auckland is cold after coming from Hawaii - I had to buy an extra fleece! Not too many photos to show you, I spent most of my time getting organised with bank accounts and tax numbers and planning what to do next. Finally left on the Magic bus a week later, and headed down to Rotorua for a couple of days and then Taupo, with various scenic stops en-route - including Huka Falls, and a lot of thermal pools and sulphurous mud, as this whole area is volcanic. Lakes Rotorua and Taupo are both crater lakes in long-extinct volcanoes. Met some good travelling companions on the bus, so it was a fun few days. Bus drivers generally crazy adrenaline-junkie Kiwis. Sweet as :-) After Taupo we drove east to Mount Maunganui, which is a surf town
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