NewZealandTimesForTwo: Our Journey

Our Journey started in Aukcland city, where we stayed 4 nights at YHA backpacker hostell. We didn't do to much in Auckland, but we walked around in the city, and finally Geir got to buy some new shoes! :D We saw The Hobbit at the cinema, Geir almost fell asleep, and I almost froze to death, but I like the movie so I think it was worth it. (I just bought the book, so now I'll get to know what happens in the next 2 movies too!)

After 2 days in Auckland we bought a car so we could travel around, when ever and where ever we wanted. We started driving north on wednesday 16th jan. If you go to Geir's home page gtufte.com you can see our itinerary. Our goal for that day was to drive as far north that we could, but when we came to Dargaville we got lost and drove 100 km wrong!

On the map picture you can se the white line, thats where we drove wrong, all the way down AND up again..

Even though we both was a bit "angry" for driving wrong, and the hidden treasure was a endangered bird, it was quite beautiful down at the beach.

That sort of ruined my spirit, but when we got back on track it was all much better. We found a nice motel in Ahipara and stayed there till next morning.

This was our view from the motel in Ahipara.

Tuesday 17th we drove from Ahipara and all the way up to Cape Reinga, and we are so glad we did! It is by far the most impressive and beautifull place we have seen here in NZ.

After a few days on the road we went to Matamata, and this is the town where The Shire is. We found out that it was a bit expencive, but we also agreed that we would regret it if we didn't go. It was really nice to see those hobbit holes and we got to see some of the places Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit movies was filmed.