Round the world in a Year!

I said yesterday, here is the proof in pictures!

We’ve had a fun time in New Zealand so far, and we’ve only been here a week! as I speak we are both coming down from our most exciting adventure yet… skydiving, within 20 minutes of arriving at Lake Taupo, we were getting suited up for our tandem-skydive session… more of that later.

We stopped off in Auckland and visited the Sky Tower, which is the tallest in the southern hemisphere. After 3 days spent in NZ’s Northland region, and moved down through Waitapo, where we visited the glow-worm caves and then down to Rotorua, the “Thermal” capital of the region, with fantastic thermal parks of boiling mud and water, we visited a thermal park called “Hells Gate” and saw the water and mud right in front of us boil on the hot rocks. From Rotorua we decided to head down to Lake Taupo and although there were skydiving activities in other parts of the country , we felt the scenery in Taupo would be the most spectacular… we were not wrong!… there was no time for arguing, within minutes of entering reception we were getting suited up for the ride (we opted for a DVD of it… if anyone wants to see it, ask us when we get back) and up in the plane… just 15 minutes later we were in the drop zone of 12′000 ft and were (along with out trained tandem partners) suddenly out in mid air. Well it was the most amazing thing either of us have done, we get the photos back tomorrow, will try and post a few to the blog as soon as we can. Bye for Now Nik and Chez

Well, we’ve been in New Zealand for 3 days now and have decided to rent a Camper van to see the country better, we’re really enjoying New Zealand, the roads are good and all the people are really friendly

At the moment we are in an area of New Zealand called the Bay of Islands, which is in NZ’s Northland area, it’s really tranquil and beautiful

Hope to update soon with a few photos and more on what we’ve been up to

take care all

Nik and Chez

We had a great time on the island of MalaMala, the other day, a great uninhabited island with white sandy beaches, wonderful blue seas and fantastic coral reefs, we went snorkling and were given a BBQ dinner as part of our package, it was a day we were still talking about 3 days later.

We have had a really relaxing time here in Fiji, the locals are very friendly and the climate is great here… it’s warm enough for me, even though this is the Fijian winter!

Anyhows, we have decided, after being here a week and having a great relaxing time, to move onwards and cross the sea to New Zealand… a short (by our standards) 3 hour plane trip.

We hope to stay in NZ about 3 weeks before moving off to our mail stopover, Australia

Apoligies to anyone who has tried to send emails to me (Nik) , the email server I use seems to be down at the moment so you may have your messages returned to you… hopefully this will be sorted out by tuesday, when I hope to get to see my email!

Will try and update again in New Zealand!

Bye For Now

Nik and Chez

Wel we’re now in Fiji! doesn’t seem like a week and a half since we left but it has been, and in that time we’ve travelled all the way accross North America!

We landed in New York on the 30th and stopped there for 3 days, though most of the time the humidity and smell of the city made staying there unbearable. We decided to see america the scenic way and bought ourselves a cross-continent train ticket… a 3 day monster train ride, going from NY Penn station to Chicago then accross to Denver, Colarado at the base of the Rocky Mountains and then over the Rockies to Utah, Nevada finally crossing the Sierra Nevada mountain range and heading into California!

We then took a bus from the San Francisco Bay area all the way into San Francisco and got ourselves a hotel in the Fishermans Wharf area. We spent a couple of days in SF, seeing the sights of the city and the wharf area, taking in a Bay cruise under the Golden Gate bridge and around Alcatraz island… we also sampled some of the fantastic seafood, which SF is famous for, in fact we ate it 3 meals in a row!

A short (ish) 6 hour train ride to Bakersfield took us nearer to LA international airport and we were on the way to Fiji.

The flight took 10.5 hours and we arrived here about 3am local time, and were picked up directly by our hostal and taken there.

This morning, we walked around the town, and met some of the locals, who all seem to run their own shops and are very nice but very sales orientated! abit too much for us! we have tried the local drink Kava which tastes alittle like muddy water… we have decided to stick to Heinekins for the time being though!

Hopefully we’re gonna arrange a few island hops in the next few coming days and see about doing some of the exciting activities here.

Thats All for now

Chez and Nik