Did you know that the Trans Canadian Hwy is the world’s longest National Highway with a length of 7821 km (4860 miles)!! It extends between Victoria in British Columbia and St. John’s in New Foundland. We were looking forward to driving on this historic road…and were welcomed by spectacular scenery and towering mountains on every Read More »
Today we got up early and loaded the cars with all of our gear. We went to Denny’s in town to get some breakfast since we had a long day of driving ahead of us. We got the atlas out and planned our route until our breakfast came. After we finished eating we stopped at Read More »
After leaving Mesa Verde we traveled into the Grand Canyon in Arizona. No pictures a person can take do this natural wonder justice. If you are intending to go to the Canyon make sure you get the proper directions as we were given a route into the South Rim and were supposed to stay at the Read More »
As a pert of the Northern Territory tour we would visit Kakadu National Park every 2 weeks and it is a place I could never get bored with. During the wet the landscape changes dramatically as the water levels rise and the bird species that are present change from the winter species. If you want Read More »
I always thought I’d have some big, grand adventure in the Grand Canyon – rafting down the Colorado River, riding down the switchback trails on a horse or donkey (like they did on the “Brady Bunch”), or hiking down to the bottom with an overloaded backpack. Since I visited this famous natural wonder with an Read More »
After yesterdays Manic day we were really in no rush to get out and about early today, yet the Sun did its usual trick of waking us up and at 0930 we To Signal for help, not for potential Goat Rapists were up and getting showered. we Drove out of the Camp two very happy Read More »
Apparently we caught Rotorua on a good day - good in the sense the whole town didn’t stink of rotten eggs. We didn’t really stick around for long, just a night, but I got up nice and early to have a look at the park across the road from the hostel which was dotted with holes Read More »
Man this places stinks! Its a natrual therma thingy! Which means it has lots of holes in the ground full of gases, hot bubbling water and mud. The hostel (hot rocks) I stayed in used to be a old school and it really shows! I went to a nice English pub for dinner, it was Read More »
Well, what a great day we had today. Our guide picked us up form our hotel room and took us out to Wai-o-tapu thermal wonderland. The thermal pools were amazing and perhaps the names such as the champagne pool and the artist’s pallette might go some way to describing the beautiful springs. Lovely to look Read More »
Dude, when you step out of the bus all you can smell is Egg, i’ve never smelt anything so bad or strong, had me and charlie shouting out loud arhhhhh!!! a few times. Other then the smell is has the most thermal pools and spars ever and after walking around Kuirau park which has loads of Read More »
