Funky Chicken on Tour Day 1 (Coromandel)

The day of my tour finally arrived and Drew was so kind to drop me off in the city where the Kiwi Experience (KE) bus picked us up. It is quite a large group of 34 people compared to my first tour, everyone around my age, even though I have the feeling that most people are younger than me. Some just finished university and decided to travel for a few months before looking for a job or start university next year. 

Most of them are from the UK and Ireland, some from Denmark/Sweden and just one other German who doesn’t talk to me for some weird reason.

When I took place in the bus (a bit nerdy sitting in the front) another girl took the seat next to me. We talked a bit until we stopped at the KE Office for some paperwork, suddenly when we went for our first stop she was sitting in the back of the bus. I might have had a bad day.

Our first stop of the day was Mount Eden and I was happy that I went the other day already because it had started to rain again and the view was not very nice.

The Explorer day (Auckland)

The early bird catches the worm hence I got up earlier (and yes I had to use the alarm to wake me up).

Glen was so kind and drove me a round today to a few further places that are difficult to reach with public transport (not impossible though). First stop was the ‘One Tree Hill’ with a fantastic view over Auckland. We checked out as well the Acacia Cottage, where the founder of Auckland lived. His grave is on top of the hill. The animals around as walked free, no fence or anything else, anyone could go up to them, not that I would recommend it.