This area of ​​the North Island east coast is well known for its more temperate climate which makes it a renowned wine point. In addition to its vineyards, Hawkes Bay is full of exceptional panoramas and atypical architectural discoveries. We had not planned to stop there, but after reflection we didn’t regret to be back […]

The Waikato area is full of activities, unfortunately paying. As we are not especially fond of these particularly expensive tourist attractions we will not talk here about surf lessons at Raglan (the beaches of Auckland are also beautiful), glow worms of the Waitomo Caves (it is possible to see many caves for free), the Otorohanga […]

One of the destinations we had already heard about before leaving France, at least for Bastien, because the city represents one of the biggest downhill mountain bike poles on the North Island. We reassure you Rotorua is not only known for its mountain bike trails, it’s also a health resort with multitudes of geothermal events […]

The famous Hobbit’s shire the one of Frodo, Sam, Bilbo, Merry and Pippin, the one where Gandalf explodes his fireworks, where we smoke pipe grass and drink mead. It’s today the New-Zealand most famous tourist attraction, the result of J.R.R Tolkien‘s imagination and staged for Peter Jackson‘s films, the middle earth opens its doors to […]

Now that we completed our tour of the Great North (→ Northland ←), it’s time for us to go down to the next region, we name Auckland. Then yes, when we say Auckland we, first of all, think about this big cosmopolitan metropolis representing the biggest urban and populated area of ​​the country, and we will ansewer […]

After spending most of the winter in the beautiful area of ​​the Bay of Plenty, where the temperatures were the most mild, we went back on the road again towards the extreme north of the northern island known as Northland. We made a short itinerary with the key points of this region, but also our […]