New Zealand is like the lake district, but with more cool stuff. Basically, like volcanoes, and bubbling mud pools and Maori warriors (who apparantly DON'T walk around in grass skirts and head dresses like you're led to believe) and tropical rainforests, and black sandy beaches, glaciers, thermal pools and lots of weird birds. We've been trying to see all of it in 2 weeks in a campervan that has the word "backpacker" on it. Weirdly, no one beeped at us or laughed. It has involved some epic driving though from Tim and some equally epic map reading and tuning of the radio by Emma. Luckily the roads are all but deserted, there's really not many people in New Zealand! Some of the roads where very bendy and very steep and in a campervan, that is great
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