After graduating from Kellogg, I decided to spend the summer on the
road. I grabbed my pack and headed to New Zealand, with plans to
hit Thailand, also.
A rough itinerary:
-Auckland
-Rotorua (volcanic region with sulfur pools)
-Taupo (sky diving and 1st bungy)
-Paraparaumu (to visit my friend Simon)
-Wellington (great city!!!)
-Blenheim (South Island, wine country)
-Christchurch (met up with Tariq)
-Franz Josef Glacier
(kayaking)
-Queenstown (skiing, 340' bungy, white water rafting, jet boats, etc.)
-Waitomo (glow worm caves, black water rafting)
We pretty much stayed in backpacker hostels, which were nice, if unheated.
Travel was mostly by bus, with the TranzAlpine train and the flight from
Christchurch to Hamilton being the exceptions. Met tons of cool people,
like Simon and Stuart, Nicky and Alex, and various others. The photos
below are the ones taken with my diggie camera. I haven't had the
drive to scan my 13 rolls of APS photos yet. |