After a relaxed 3-4 hour flight from Nadi, we landed in Auckland, New Zealand. Those guys have a nice airport, we rented a red RAV4 after some bickering with the rental companies. and we got a cheap place to stay in the city center. Needless to say, we were now hooked up for our 23-day adventure in probably our furthest destination (as compared from the Netherlands). There was only one little thing... these people drive on the left side of the road. Wew! It was a little awkward in the beginning to drive on the left hand side and Sois drove like "bompa" in his later driving days. Auckland is the country's largest city with over 1 million inhabitants. It wasn't much to look at so we just strolled around the next day. In the meantime, Chel had gotted her bladder/urinary tract infection back. So we set out to get a doctor and had to skip any activities including water and too high exertion. We decided to go to Hahei and Hot Water Beach the next day instead of the Waitomo Caves as our old faitful Lonely Planet (well, this edition is rather crap) informed us that glowworms were abound in NZ. Finally, we were so busy with the doctor, laundry, etc. that we didn't get to update the blog so sorry for the long wait (plus these guys here close really really early. It's like being back home). Oh, and before we forget.. our first impressions of NZ are nicely summed up by Sois during our first drive: "Man, this place is SO green, it makes me wanna eat grass!" (Little did we know what beautiful surprises those damn "Kiwi's" (that's the nickname of the people here, btw) had in store for us). And on that bombshell, we're ending tonight's post. Keep visiting our site and discover NZ along with us. Thanks and goodbye, your dynamic (left-driving) duo! (and watch out for those damn Kiwi's crossing the road)
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