pictures!

Here's some pictures for all to enjoy.

Here I just left Auckland City. You can see the skytower in the background! For this entire day, I drove along the coastline, and ended up at several really nice and sunny beaches.

Beaches like this one!


I am now beginning my climb up into the mountains. Or very very large hills, if you like. In the background, yet again, Auckland is visible.

Lunchtime!


So, I made it up onto a hilly-mountainy-top-thing when darkness fell. And driving in darkness in NZ i scary, coz thay drive like madmen over here. So, I rolled out me sleeping bag in some guys backyard, (don't worry, he allowed me to), and fell asleep to the sounds of nature. Cikadees, wind, an occasional airplane passing overhead, those kindda natural sounds.


woke up with the sunrise! Seeing the sun rise above the mountains is something I'm never gonna forget, ever. Absolutaly magnifiscent!

On the road again!

this day I decided to go trough a Natural Reservoir. This huge park-like place, which looked really awesome. I was expecting to go trough a big forest and that I'd spend a couple of hours doing it. Ooooh, how wrong I was. Turned out to be a non-bikeable mountain. So I had to drag me bike up neverending steep hills, to the very top of the montain. From there on though, it was all downhill, and awesome! From beginning to end, the trip trough the forest took me 8 hours. Yes, I was exhausted afterwards.

it was worth it though, coz the top was absolutely amazing! Realy nice view from the top. The mystical magical fantastical thing about this mountain though, was, that on the top it was all pine-foresty and stuff. But when you began biking downhill, before you knew it you were in the middle of nothing less than a genuine super-humid rainforest. It was amazing!


And in the middle of said rainforest was a lake. Most amazing place Ive been in my LIFE! No people, no noise, no nothing. Just a huge big orange beach made of CLAY, and the sounds of nature, and the scorching sun. Choice!


Ride downhill didn't go entirely as planned. First crash!!! I didn't get hurt though, landed in the grassy path to the left in the picture. And yes, I AM touring New Zealand in me jandals.


Made it to Taurangaaaaa, and here I'm just being cool with me mate Zeurel! Sweet as!


Mount Maunganui (or just The Mount for short) just 5 km North of Tauranga. AWESOME beaches, like 4 metre waves just thrashing the beach. So much fun. Oh, and a mountain. Which I climbed.


The View from the top of The Mount! Sweet as, eh?





this concludes my trip for now. I'm currently stationed in Rotarua, where I'm just running about, sleeping whereever I please, eating salads and pizzahs. Will leave tomorrow for Lake Taupo, or maybe in 2 days. We'll see.