Great Waterfalls and planning a climb !

We were ready with our bags, ready to jump on the bus at 8am. ‘Rangi’ was our driver today, he was so disorganised but really funny.

After picking everyone up we were on our way. We stopped for a 10 minutes break to see a waterfall, can’t remember the name of it.

Our next stop was Taupo. The door on the bus had broken so we had a 45 minutes wait here while it was being fixed. We had a good walk around the town. After buying a brew it was time to head down for the bus again. About 15 minutes later the bus arrived all fixed.

Our next stop was the Huka Falls, it was a massive torrent of icy blue coloured water. Very pretty!!

Next stop was Wai-O-Tapu, we’d already been around the thermals so we stayed and enjoyed some lunch and had a LONG look around the gift shop. 1 hour 45 minutes later we had some pick up’s in Rotorua, then off to ‘Mount’.

We were booked into the Pacific Lodge Backpackers and enjoyed an afternoon tea on our arrival.

We arrived late and after a trip to the supermarket there wasn’t much time to do much else.

We’ve got a busy day planned tomorrow with us conquering Mount Maunganui in the morning..... all 232 metres of it!! We met a Brit guy named Brett and we’ve arranged to climb the Mount tomorrow..... we’ve got to do it now!!