Taupo Trip - Day6

Taupo- Mt Ruapehu Trip Day 6 <25th June 2007>

Today was the last day we at Taupo.Feeling bit sad...time flies, so fast we have been at Taupo for the 5th day... Beautiful view, tasty foods and amazing fun activities will leave us happy memories...

Around 8+am, We having our last bfast at the kitchen of silver fern lodge...Poh Yee & I wore the same shirt that we bought that day in Just Jeans.hehe


After returning the keys, checking out & bid farewell to Silver Fern Lodge, we walked down to the bus terminal. Our bus was at 10.10am. Since we still have the time, we went around to have our last walk. WYne & I went to Kiwi Kids to grab more souvenirs while Elun & Poh Yee went to Robert Harris to have the last sip of Iced choc and to Brumby's to buy the yummy icing carrot cake.

Before departing, we took las pic at Taupo.
---> With our coach, Newmans



In the bus, before departing, we taken pic with our cute gloves on...



On the way, there are many nice landscape view that we captured. A picture is worth more than a thousand words..haha








Sheep...sheep...and more sheep....wahahaha





Stopped at Flat Hills again for short break before resume our journney back to Wellington.


---> a nice mural we passed by...


Reach Wellington Railway Station around 5pm. It was raining. Back to the city life again...Tired. Been busy around after exam...I guess its time for rest...;)
---> all the souvenirs I bought


Sayonara to dear Taupo - a picturesque & fantastic city~ Hope to visit u again!

Taupo Trip - Day5

Taupo - Mt Ruapehu Trip Day 5 < 24th June 2007 >

After bfast, bout 10.40am, a courtesy coach owned by Huka Jet picked us up at Silver Fern Lodge. We were glad that the weather for 2day is pretty good, where there is sun and no rain. Hehe=) After we got the tickets, we handed our bags to the counter, headed further to the boat. Huka Jet is one of the most thrilling activity that you must undertaken when you go to Wairakei Tourist Park. Once we dressed up ourselves with waterproof life jackets, they took a photo of us, and we are ready to go for the thrill. Once we stepped into the boat, our driver of the boat – Ash welcomed us with some light entertainment. At that moment, four of us were really in exhilarating spirit, thinking the ride must be fun. The whole ride includes the ride down to Aratiatia Dam up to Huka Falls. Huka Falls – known as Hukanui in Maori, meaning ‘ Great Body of Spray’. It is a largest fall in NZ as a great torrent of water , more like a giant rapid that plunges through a narrow cleft in the rock. – more than 220,000 litres tumbles over the clift per second. In overall, the Huka Jet ride is a exhilarating ride where u get chill when you zoom past sheer rock cliff and the 360 degree spin. Thanks to Ash for its expertise of controlling the boat that makes the ride a nice one. =)
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The final result was we were soaked wet…haha coz splashed by Waikato river’s water…hehe After the ride, we went back to the reception desk to get back our bags and our photos. Well, I wasn’t that satisfied with the shot, so I didn’t buy the photo pack. Only Elun bought it. The guy at the counter was so disappointed, sorry to say…*grins*

Our next stop was Craters of The Moon, a beautiful name for an unexploited thermal area. The whole track takes about 45 minutes to complete. Well, it was an interesting sight to see as lots of steam appeared when you wander them along the walking track. For me, I think the view is spectacular! You can never see such view in any other place…Sad to said after few minutes walk, you will find boring as all view looks almost the same… Yet, at the second lookout, there is a large mud crater – a highlight of the area. Closely looked, you can perceive that pumice and mud are bubbling from the crater.










After a pretty long walk at the thermal environment, we headed to Honey Hive- 100% pure NZ’s honey by hopping into the HOT BUS. This honey hive houses NZ’s largest collection of honey bee products and a few glass-enclosed hives. There is also free honey tasting for a wide array of honey ranging from the mild traditional Clover honey to the most famous Manuka Honey. There are lots of natural honeybee skin & healthcare products as well supplemented with souvenirs and unique gifts under the theme buzzy bee. Besides, I could also grab the chance of trying the creamy honey ice-creams at the Bees Knees Café. I ordered an ice-cream topped with 1 scoop of Manuka Honey & Chestnut with another scoop of Lemon Meringue Pie, a heaven delight!



---> real life bee display

---> miracle within the mirror?

--->i m tasting the honey..hehe

----> the buzzy bee

--->all kinds of honey in wide display

---> the honey bee's product

---> manuka honey+ chestnut + lemon meringue pie ice cream


In the same building, at a small corner there is the NZ Fruit Wines section. It is believed to be NZ largest collection of fruit wines and liquers. There are quite a lot of unique NZ medal winning fruit wines on display including Kiwifruit, Boysenberry, Plum, Fejoa, Apricot, Passionfruit, Strawberry, Blueberry and Honey Meads plus fruit liquers and brandies. All together I tasted four kinds of red wines and I feel that the sweet plus not-that-bitter black raspberry taste the best.


After that, we thought of going to Lava Glass Studio Gallery. But unfortunately the driver of the Hot Bus who sent us didn’t manage to get what we said and sent us directly back to our backpackers, sad isn’t it? Frust. No other way we can go back but to blame on bad luck hits us for the day.
---> the HOT BUS


Back to Silver Fern, due to lots of obstacles that hinders Elun & Py from goin to sky dive, they decided to try on another daring stunt- the Taupo Bungy. Left me n wyne wasn’t that bold enough to try on such risky activity. So they headed off to Bungy and we went on our shopping spree again.
...Here r some of the pics we took in between our shopping...





Dinner time, we went to Max Café. Elun & poh Yee were so excited for explaining their unforgettable experience for bungy. They still cant believe that both of them had really gone through it. I really have to congrats them for being such brave to take on the plunge, bravo! My salute to u guys! My dinner of the day was Ham & Mushroom Pasta. Yum yum tasty! Poh Yee ordered smoked salmon pasta, while Elun & Wyne ordered burger for each.

the following two pics I got from Elun...their taupo bungy pics...expensive pics...haha cool experience!

Moving to a new house

Moving to a new abode - 1st of July
Las nite packing up till quite late, about 4am in the morning... Was so reluctant to move to a new place...if given a chance, i will definitely not moving..yet truth can nvr change, what we do is to keep moving on... Today started with a gloomy weather, Wyne & I went over to our new room in the morning to clean up our new room, the flat v gonna stay for the following trimester...To my dismay, our new room is very small,much much more smaller compared to our previous unit. We could hardly figure out a good position to place our tables and beds. The sockets available is only 4, compared to previous room which was about 8. What frust us is dat the sockets are all placed in 1 row. It will gonna bring us lots lots lots inconveniences...

After our brain get stucked, we went for b'fast at friendly bakery 1st. I ordered a Bacon & Egg Plum Sauce Panini & a Viennese finger + Hot Mocha for my delicious bfast. We headed the sunday market after dat to stock up our groceries. Weather wasnt good, it keep on raining...The weather really makes me sick...make me dun hav the mood to shop for my groceries...I just bought some lettuce & carrots, some grapes & apples for the day...



Back to Home, I guess was about 2pm. We went back to our messy new room. Frust. We placed our cupboard and shelves 1st before finally turn to our tables...After put-ing both our beds together, we placed our tables facing the window. The room was really small and its very hard for us to squeeze our tables nicely. But after final compromise, we finally make it bck to bck. Though was bit inconveniences, we still think that its the best way we can do... Next, we started to move our stuff one by one...It was really tiring..We were moving up and down from 2pm. Till 5pm we only manage to settle down. Poh Yee did came to help us...She even helps us to vacumm our previous room for inspection later. I began to unpack everything once evythg has been moved to our new room...Evythg seems soaked in water, wet...sigh...hate it...bad weather... I dried up most of the stuff, then place all back to the shelves or cupboard...

Till now, I still feel uneasy...I wasnt that comfortable...a new place, a new home...though the whole unit's residence are all m'sian females which i think is a lucky one, but the house wasnt fully equipped, i mean bad design...haha seems like i start to complain lots...there r 2 lvl at this hse, i m currently staying at the 1st room(upper level) with wyne, room pretty small is the 1st thing i dun like, no 'dancing space' anymore...=p next the kitchen, those pan and pots wasnt in very good condition, rusty old... Next, there is no bathroom at the upper lvl, so if v nid to use the toilet v nid to walk down the stairs, a long way to go le...the design was pretty weird at the laudry room, is a shower tub instead of a toilet...sigh...pretty sad case now...let me think bck of cumberland hse where 1st night I spend at NZ. The feeling was the same really...just that its much better abit,jz dat abit coz m like more adapt to nz dy... The pangs of homesickness attacked me again...

Wasnt dat happy really...Perhaps I should not complain that much...Well, jz hope for the best & continue studying... In a sudden, in such new environment, I miss home...