Rotarua

After Taupo we drove onto Rotarua. On the back of a pretty bad hangover we headed for a extreme entertainment park. Its pretty much what everyone doees in NZ, apart from a few other atrractions. Rastrick went all out. First he Zorbed because he didnt get to do it in Oz. Then it was onto the bunjy swoop which looked pretty fun, finally the extreme freefall, where you get held up by a huge fan.

Later we headed to a hot spring by a river, pointed out to us by a local for a dip.

The next day it was time for white water sledging. Basically going where all the people in the rafts go but we just have a plastic sledge to keep us afloat. Needless to say its bloody tiring. I got trapped in one rapid and i could barley breath afterwards. You basically have to swim away from any rapids if you get caught. You also have to duck dive after going down them otherwise you get stuck aswell. The best part is where you swim upstream back into a rapid and surf on it, doing tricks and stupid stuff that the instructors showed us how to do. Its pretty good fun, but youve got to be fit to do it. Our legs were like jelly afterwards and the intructors still had two more runs to do after ours!