Sky City Tower in downtown Auckland…

September 10–21, 2025

2025 New Zealand

10 days · 235 photos · 11,728 words

Where they went

  1. Sky City Tower in downtown Auckland…
    Day 1

    Welcome to New Zealand

    14 photos · 730 words

  2. Our fish and chips dinner given to us in brown bags. It was quite good.
    Day 2

    Hot Water Beach, Hahei and Whitianga

    16 photos · 875 words

  3. Hell’s Gate thermal pools. I will share a number of pictures at Hell’s Gate. But imagine walking around Yellowstone looking at similar, sulphur, smelling pools.
    Day 3

    Rotorua (Mud bath and geothermal pools)

    25 photos · 837 words

  4. This is the front to our ‘boutique’ hotel. It’s interesting as it has a beautiful old lobby area that I showed on yesterday’s blog. But you go outside to get into your rooms. The whole thing creaks!
    Day 4

    Church, Lake, Treewalk and Māori Experience

    32 photos · 933 words

  5. The hot tub!
    Day 5

    Goodbye Rotorua, Hello Taupō

    21 photos · 1,197 words

  6. Having some dinner in an eatery close to our motel…
    Day 6

    Goodbye Taupō, hello Napier.

    17 photos · 600 words

  7. So this is a picture of Denise. But what is key, is the point of land behind her. We picked up the bikes around on the other side of that point. So we rode all the way around this bay and then over and around that point. So fun.
    Day 7

    Having fun in Napier

    19 photos · 738 words

  8. One of the sad things about our journey was all the clear cutting that goes on here. They have amazing forests. However, they get harvested frequently. They do replant. But visually, it is really sad to see.
    Day 8

    Goodbye Napier, Hello Hamilton!

    29 photos · 588 words

  9. Some Auckland temple photos….
    Day 9

    Goodbye Hamilton, Hello Auckland

    21 photos · 714 words

  10. We were two monkeys in a foreign land, Denise and I were. But…..
    Day 10

    Goodbye New Zealand

    41 photos · 1,416 words