Or that's "hello" in Maori.
Today finds us in Tauranga. A beautiful piece of nature cut out from the rest of the world. Here there are no skyscrapers or road congestion and their idea of crowded is the road with 6 cars at the traffic light.
We took a flight from Christchurch Airport to Auckland which took about 1h 15mins. Of course there was plenty of delays and I think we took off only almost half an hour after the scheduled time. We sat on a small Boeing 737 which felt quite rickety. Touched down in Auckland at 1.50PM- the time we were supposed to board the other plane to Tauranga.
The domestic airports are quite different. For one I guess you could say the security is quite relaxed with minimal checks in between Auckland and Tauranga. We had to walk onto the tarmac to get onto the next plane. I thought I had seen small. This aircraft was a Beech 1900D and it was small. Like zero flight attendants and I think no more than 20 people kinda small. Lol.
Tauranga or the Bay of Plenty is really a beautiful costal town. We were out tonight with dad's friend's here and after a very filling dinner we went for a walk by the coast which was alive and thumping with the beat of the music. I think New Zealanders are pretty religious people. What may have sounded like a rock band was actually this guy belting out Christian Rock. I've got some pictures from dinner, of course only of my food. Will upload if they look nice.
Oh, and on a random note, New Zealand has a population of 4.2 million people. In the WHOLE of New Zealand! Golly. The same as Singapore!
Tomorrow it's back to Christchurch.
Hopefully I'll get up early enough to go to the nearby bustling market (which consists only a a small row of shops) to pick up some freshly baked bread for breakies. Yum yum.
Ka kite ano.
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