The last days on the Kiwi bus were dominated by bad weather and canceled outdoor activities (snowstorms around the Tongariro National Park, flooding in the River Valley).
River Valley:
Taihape, location of the yearly Gumboot Throwing World Championchip
Bulls, home of our bus driver. Locals (including the police department) like to play with their town name.
I didn´t mind that much since I have already seen so much of this country. Today our bus arrived in my favorite NZ city: Wellington. I had a very nice group traveling with me on the bus and tonight we were planning a night out in the city. Thomas my last host joined us.
The night life of wellington again was far from disappointing. I teamed up with an American girl from the bus and we won a “Bus Wars” competition in our first bar (getting us some free shot combinations called “the grenade”. The game involved something like directing bubble gum through my trousers) The next bar that we stumbled across featured some free bull riding which would destroy Thomas´ legs for the next few days. Here, as chance wants it, I met my Kristo from Christchurch again who spends the weekend in Wellington to pick up his passport. A city of reunions. After heaps of more drinking, dancing and meeting random people from my bus travels me and Kristo ended up in a Maori bar (we were pretty much the only white guys in there). However, we felt not the least endangered. It was in fact one of the most fun places (with some pretty good Maori Karaoke Versions of Queens and Iron Maiden :D).
A worthy end of my 5 weeks journey with Kiwi experience.
26th may 2016
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