Our revised world tour
In and around Thailand
The trip of a lifetime
Route taken and entries by Real Traveler Anthony and Laura
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Singapore... the never ending airport
After a lot of walking and head scratching we decided that maybe we should scrap the Thailand plan for now and treck on to New Zealand for an extra mo... Continue reading » -
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Bangkok or not Bangkok
The storey starts here....
Handed letter at Heathrow half an hour before take off advising that there was a situation in Bangkok (the BA flig... Continue reading »
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Nice to be out of an airport for the first time in 3 and a half days
Big city, expensive cars, nice folks and watch the sun - Laura got burnt as we got lost out looking for car markets. Continue reading » -
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Sydney - just the airport this time, will visit in March
Currently extending/refurbing the airport. Just a quick stop on the way through, nice lady on the transfer desk. Next stop - Auckland. Continue reading » -
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Lets get outta the city... off to Tauranga
After little to no deliberation we both decided that as nice as Auckland is we are not city people and promptly booked a bus to Tauranga for 7.15 t... Continue reading »
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Rotorua - smells nice (not)
Went for a day trip to near by (45mins) Rotorua. Had a picnic by the lake near "Bird Island" see pics. Found a nice shady spot un... Continue reading »
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Stop over required...
Leaving from Tauranga heading up North to nowhere in particular, we stopped for lunch at the roadside cafe and met possibly the most talkative Kiwi ev... Continue reading » -
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World of Sandflies - even so, still the nicest place so far!
On the way up from Whangarei, heading for Paihia to hopefully stay at the Pickled Parrot Backpackers Laura had seen advertised on the internet (favore... Continue reading » -
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Day out to Kaitaia and Ninety mile beach
Went for a day out to Kaitaia to look for internet access and a bite of lunch, on the way back to Hihi we diverted to look at Ninety mile beach [altho... Continue reading » -
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Top of New Zealand (well nearly)
We are so glad we chose to go all the way to the top, we were thinking of giving it a miss as it was such a long way but two German chaps Hans and Die... Continue reading » -
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Back to Ninety Mile Beach and another Top 10 Site
Stayed here for two nights, having stopped at about seven or eight other campsite and dismissing them as we were a little spoiled from staying at Hihi... Continue reading » -
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Back to Paihia - much nicer weather
We went back to Piahia and were happy to see the sun out this time. The Pickled Parrot was still full so we found a lovely motor camp nearby at... Continue reading » -
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Hick town- would have been nice forty years ago.
After Paihia we decided to head to a place called Dargaville, this was a little off the beaten track but looked really nice from the brochures in all... Continue reading » -
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Another unmanned backpackers, this one much nicer than the last
After Dargaville we were heading south to make our hotel reservation booked for Auckland, on the way we had a few more stop offs to make. Our ne... Continue reading » -
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Another top 10 for Christmas
Looked on the map and Orewa was pretty much the nearest large beach type area before the main motorway drag to Auckland so we felt this would be a goo... Continue reading » -
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The Langham - much welcomed luxury
We had a little trouble finding the hotel as we hadn't got a detailed street map of the city and was hoping that we would remember where we saw the ho... Continue reading » -
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Off to the Coromandel
Headed off to the Coromandel, got stuck in lots of traffic on the way due to a single lane bridge across a huge river, queues both ways for miles.&nbs... Continue reading » -
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Back to base
We headed back to Tauranga to recoup and plan our next adventure, we also took the opportunity to go on some nice days out. Most of the time we'... Continue reading » -
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Chuffed with myself for managing the big climb...
Attached are some picture we took from when we climbed up Mount Maunganui, the view from the top was well worth it and Laura was especially pleased th... Continue reading » -
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The East Cape Drive
Onward bound, heading for Gisborne or as close as we can get- it's such a long way. The scenery was truly awesome, we originally started with... Continue reading »
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