so havnt really looked on here, few pics if any ones interested, been here 6months really gonna miss it when i leave.

Bought a shit box l300 van an met a few other ol boys in the hostels and drove all around new zealand then sold her on, didnt lose too much

anyone else been? if not get there!

"Mt Doom" in tongariro national park


Craig pishihng in the bush on the tongariro crossing


Abel Tasman National Park


Our beautiful glenda in the southern alps, miss you love!

 

One place that is on my list of visiting



A friend of mine actually just got back, she was there for 4 years!

 

Looks great, must try and go over myself but always seem to find somewhere else at holiday time

 

Cool photos Would really love to go there one day

 

Looks very nice

Steve.

 

Cool pics mate i wish circumstances were different i woul love to do this

 

pic's

 

more pics please

will go one day, must make a commitment to make it happen

 

You met some people in a hostel and went travelling with them?
Were you on your own initially?
I think i'd be worried they turned into serial killers..but that's just me, lol.
Good pics tho. Must have been a great experience

 

man, i was travelling with a mate initially, am going home to save pounds then coming back out by myself, NZ is a safe place to travel alone , met many peeps that are travelling alone. do it!!

got loads more pics if any ones interested, got a month in southeast asia shortly before home to the real world.

 

lol, just read your reply rs shawn, met the guys we were travelling with for 1 night then left in our van, they admitted they shitted themselves that we were gonna leave them in the petrol station 1st time we filled up, now friends i will never forget, fookin good times!



Charlie Chalk - 4years - l bet they loved it!

 

Queenstown



Toss pots i met on my travels


got hundreds more if any ones interested, facebook etc?

 

Yes, Get some more pics up

 

would like to see the rest,

that last pic of queenstown looks out of this world

 

quality...

gonna have to get my pics up from when me and my mates travelled the north and south islands

 

That looks awesome. I would love to go there

Beautiful pictures

 

get them all up, looks like a top place

 

Looks really nice there!
Whats the temperature like there?

 

looks like a beautiful place, couldnt hack the flight though

 

I'll stick some more up if anyones interested, queenstown is beautiful, got the night life and you can walk an sit by that lake an do fook all!

Westy get yours up bud, where was your favourite place, how did you get around?

As for money fruit picked for a month or so, but not really spent a lot to be honest, hostels/camping range from free to 8 quid a night, staying in campsites and hostels. Costs $70 to fill the van up which is around 25-30 quid, and was between 4 of us, been on a budget so just have to choose the activities you really want to do, done lots of walking which is free fun! Food cost about the same, try to cook for my self most of the time to keep it cheap!


as the for the flight spend stop over in thailand or malaysia or anywhere you fancy! break it up a little.

 

Nice pics

 

There is nothing to worry about travelling alone. I have done it many times, my brother does it and numerous mates from uni have come over here to see me on their own en route to other countries.

To paint a picture, my brother was the kind of guy who had a gang of about 15 mates, all of whom he knew from secondary school. Gradually, most had kids by the time there were 22/23 and some now at 25 are on their second. He used to drink with these same guys every Friday and Saturday night and go out with them other nights of the week. He was living week by week.

I started to travel on my own and began with Australia during my first year of uni and have done a bit since at which time he thought enough was enough and as great as his mates are/were, they were doing very little in life.

He packed his bags up and started with Gibralter. He has now done most of the US, some of Canada, Mexico, Australia, Europe and has now just returned from Israel and Palestine (he was begged not to go by the family but still did). This is all from a 25 year old guy who saw his whole life ahead with the same mates he went to school with.

All of these trips have been on his own and he now has mates from every single trip who has met at hostels/tourist attractions. Travelling is geared around single people so there are lots of communal areas at hostels, team activities etc.

If he can do, anyone can so get out and see this amazing world before its too late.

 

fookin well said!

i thought travelling alone would be a no no before i came here, majority of people i've met travel alone, defo gonna do more and by myself, good travelling with some one else, but both want different things. you will meet loads of peeps if you pick the right hostels etc, and most of all make the effort to meet people i guess.

get on it, the grass is greener if you ask me!

 

alright mate Ill definately get some pics up dude some of the roads, scenery... amazing

as for favourite place... We flew into Christchurch, and in the bar/club at Base backpackers as soon as we walked in there was a drum and bass doo.. it was a pre party so we dumped the backpacks and headed straight for the bar.. as you do then went to some massive doo with a load of nutty NZ people and Hi Contrast was playing Door policy was No NOS Love my drum and bass so that kind of made it a special place BUT, also loved Queenstown Some good memories...

In a nut shell, I loved it all mate.. its hard not too...

We were a little flush after working in OZ, so we hired a car for a few weeks, split between 4 of us, so cost werent to bad..

 

What's that ??
No replies of "No nitrous" please.

 

Sounds ace westy, stayed in the same hostel in christchurch the last few nights in fact, was only a band on swhile we were there, the irish bar next door was mental for st patricks day.

Did you treat your self to a tea pot in queenstown??!

look forward to seeing the pics buddy.

 

I had all of them off the menu in the world bar and was trashed after drinkin many free pints as well on more than 1 occassion

As said Travelling is daunting if you never done it before but after a week or 2 you start to wonder if you were being a complete girls dick the whole of your life

DO IT IMO if anyone on here has thought about it, dont know one person who has regretted it yet