Mount Maunganui - lovely place

view from the top of Mt. Maunganui/ Mauao

Mt`Maunganui is on a peninsula to the north of Tauranga
(Bay of Plenty)

Rotorua/ the center of New Zealand's geothermal wonderland

museum

Maori culture

I agree, Rotorua is one of the most beautiful city in New Zealand

very cozy and cool hostel Funky Green Voyager

Lake Rotorua

boiling mud pool

Napier - Taupo - Wai-O-Tapu Thermal Area

Napier

Taupo

the Champagne Pool

Wai-O-Tapu is New Zealand`s most colourful and diverse volcanic area

vulcanic crater

Sinter Terrace Formations

free hot spring a few minutes walk from Wai-O-Tapu

Akaroa(Banks Peninsula) - Hanmer Springs - Kaikoura

Banks Peninsula

Akaroa is the oldest colonial town in the South Island, also uniquely the only French colonial settlement in the country 

sheep

Hanmer Springs is New Zealand`s premier alpine spa destination

hot springs and mineral pools

Kaikoura

Aoraki / Mount Cook NP

Amazing!!!!

great guy!!!!

Mt. Sefton (3151m)

Hooker River and cross on swing-bridge

Hooker Valley towards Aoraki (Hooker Track)

Hooker Glacier Lake

Aoraki/ Mt. Cook 3754m

Moeraki Boulders - Oamaru

if you are driving along the North Otago coast, be sure to stop and see the Moeraki Boulders

a cluster of highly spherical boulders

Steampunk HQ

we had a lovely pumpkin soup from that bakery 

you can encounter Blue Penguins

the Harbour -Tyne Street area in Oamaru provides some context, a bit of history about the town. The first European to settle in the Omaru district arrived some time in the late 1840s.