AOTEAROA...New Zealand

AOTEAROA... New Zeland

After 5 months spent working at Helephant Hill it's time to start tramp, discovering new peoples, wonderful landscapes and different cultures!!

Also if i had some troubles at the beginning, the work experience in Te Awanga (heart of Hawke's bay) was really good! I learned a lot, discovered a new philosophy of winemaking and made a little bit more muscles!! =) The people over there were friendly and open-mind, so i could improve my knowledge about wine, typical food and maori culture. I need to thanks someone in particular to helped me with my car's troubles!! Yes..unfortunately i bought a very cheap car (Nissan Prairie '92) with a big engineer problem! Is the top and now it makes me laughing...a mechanic's daughter that doesn't recognize a big mechanical problem...anyway i was all the time very lucky because after that i just met two wonderful germans guys that helped me and left me another car (mythic Nevis), much better and the same that i'm traveling with! By the way i learned the lesson...

Since two days i'm in Whangarei a little town with a very big maori culture, located in the far north on the east coast of north island.

I'm sharing this experience with Max, my new travelmate. A very efficient german guy!! We are having a very good time, we just spent the last few days on the nature, enjoying some outdoor activites. Thanks to Sandra & George we discovered Abbey Caves, a groups of ancient wonderful caves where inside live some particular glow rows. We walked for hours inside it just watching on the glowing phosphoric roof and trying don't fall down on big water holes!!

The nature is really amazing...

We also are discovering a reality life, living with Rob and his funny sons, cooking for them, sharing some cultural differences.

Next top...we don't know!!

Kia ora!