What an incredible country. Gorgeous!
Our second day, we left Auckland and started seeing beautiful countryside. We passed a large Christmas Tree made out of granny squares. The problem with a tour, is that you can see something amazing, and the bus won’t stop. This happened a few times, I just wish I had a picture of that tree.
I crossed the suspension bridge! Without any problems, this one was pretty sturdy.
We were visiting an old gold mine.
How quickly nature reclaims what man has built, and no longer maintains, like the railroad.
Enter it the mine, this section was short, you can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Next one was pitch dark, needed flashlights.
Just look at the country side. Amazing.
This is what a modern day gold mine looks like today.
Along the fence is a memorial to NZ soldiers who died in WWI. There are memorials around the country to these fallen. NZ also participated in WWII, but really hadn’t experienced war since. Not of it on their own soil.
Here is a war memorial in Rotorua, this is to a local boy who fought valiantly and died in South Africa, in the Boer war in the 19 c
This Chinese tourist didn’t care about any of that. It is a lovely statue, a nice place to take a picture. Her friend took her picture, as did I, it is a lovely image with her red coat flowing.
Leah