C'est LA viE

Merry Christmas!!!

Our family trip continued today, we left Taupo and went up to Akl via Rotorua, Matamata and Hamilton.

However, before our road trip began, we gone to the famous Huka falls at Taupo.

We actually struggled to find the access car-park to the closer view point of this attraction

Finally we able to view the power of natural through our lens~

Weather was quite good, many tourists visited here too.

Then we started our road trip, 1 hr later we arrived Rotorua.

We actually ran out of time, so we only stopped by the free Kuirau geothermal park to view the natural thermal pool

Well done for the development for this park! But apparently this park is very dangerous to be visited...

My parents refused to go to the rainbow spring bird park bcz it is too expensive, they did save me a lot of money =S

Later, we gone to Matamata, where is the hobbit land!

Of cz we dint join the Horbitton trip as my parents think the trip is far too expensive. Actually i did agree with them, it was used to be NZD45 per tour last yr, however, just less than a year, it gone up to NZD75 per person!!!!

U bet it was due to the heat wave of Hobbit, given that the Hobbit is a trilogy, i dont think the price will be going down in the future...

Well photos around Matamata was well enough, this small rural town was alive becz of Hobbit. The i-site is just like one of the Hobbit hse~

Dad come up with an idea, let's go to the Hobbiton movie set place, I only realized it was not where Hobbitton is, it is just the meeting point for ppl who want to join the Hobbitton tour. 

Well, but we kinda like known what's Hobbit land looks like along our journey....

So basically, they just put a hole on those small hills....I guess.

Therefore, that's end of some middle-earth dream....we continued our journey.

A short stop at Hamilton garden.

Then eventually, finally we arrived Auckland!!

The Chatham apartment I booked for my family is very nice and warming, worthy stay!!!

I guess same as other big city around the world, staying at the centre of city definitely would be challenging for a good dream, as the city is always noisy, all of us dint sleep very well bcz of the loud crazy scream from drunkers....well, is not chatham fault anyways~ =P