Let's Go On An Adventure!

First stop after Auckland was Cape Reinga day tour. Altough I got car sick, the busdrive was amazing. We stopped to do some sandboarding, which was a really cool experience, and went to 99-mile beach. This is a crazy beach where you can just drive with your car or by bus. Then we got to Cape Reinga. It’s the ultimate top of the north Island. Right on this point, you can see the two oceans coming together and there’s a magical lighthouse on top of the cliff. This is a very special place for the residents of NZ. For Māori, Cape Reinga is the most spiritually significant place in New Zealand. An ancient pohutukawa tree and a lonely lighthouse mark this special place. It is here that after death, all Māori spirits travel up the coast and over the wind-swept vista to the pohutukawa tree on the headland of Te Rerenga Wairua. They descend into the underworld (reinga) by sliding down a root into the sea below. The spirits then travel underwater to the Three Kings Islands where they climb out onto Ohaua, the highest point of the islands and bid their last farewell before returning to the land of their ancestors, Hawaiiki-A-NuiI In the evening we drove back and ended up sleeping in a little town called ‘Paihia’