jakobwelner

As always, pickup from last entry, Bangkok. Following our already arranged travelplans we go picked up in Bangkok airport, driven directly to a bus and took off heading south. Time for islands and the first one was Koh Phangan. Getting to that island proved a bit different that we had though. Complicated isn't the word but nor is easy. Interesting may suit it well. Basically, what we had thought to be one bus drive and a boat resulted in the main bus dropping us off somewhere with a lot of other people and handed out some colored stickers that we were supposed to put on our shirt with no more information than that. From there we were visited by a shuttle bus once i a while asking for our destination and taking small groups of people ... read more

Finally arrived in Wellington where I had arranged to stay at one of my friends friends who is living just outside of town center and happened to be working at Weta Digital as an animator. He picked me up from some random spot in Welly and drove me to his apartment, though mansion would suit the size of it better. His place was huge! and he's basically living there for no other reason than because he can. Guess I would've done the same :) Anyway, he prove to be an amazing guy and a great host - not because I doubted it - and we came along very well. Only problem with living there was the temperature. For some reason central heating never really reached New Zealand and neither have insolation so living in a big ... read more

Starting up where I ended, my plans for going to Cape Reinga the next day as descripted earlier, didn't quite go as planned. There had obviously been a misunderstanding on the phone when I made the booking but even though it caused some annoyance it only resulted in posponing my trip. The short story is that I ended going there 2 days later and in the mean while going out on a sunset kayak tour. THAT was something though!. We took off 12 people leaving the warf around 5 pm. and paddled around for a while to get to know the kayaks, continuing on to a winery on one of the 150 islands in The Bay of Islands (Which is what this area is called). It was an amazing island with wine stocks all around, a ... read more