Exploring Bay of Islands | Russell & Paihia | Van Life New Zealand | North Island Roadtrip

Welcome to a new video and our second episode of our New Zealand Roadtrip Adventure 🏞️
Full time van life for the first time so come along with us as we try and nagivate the incredible New Zealand countryside and experience living in a campervan for the very first time ❤️🚐
In this video, we head further up north from Whangarei, to the quaint town of Russell, New Zealand first European settlement. We take an unexpected turn down a very windy unsealed road before making it to the very chilled seaside town of Paihia.
More waterfall exploring in store in this video as we explore the wonderful Haruru falls track and rainbow falls.
NEXT UP: We finally make it to the very north of Northland, so stay tuned for that in the next video!
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00:00 Intro
01:15 Leaving Whangarei
02:52 Change of Plan
04:06 Hidden Gem - Elaine Bay
05:14 Heading for Russell
05:54 Arriving in Russell
06:20 The most EPIC sunset
08:30 Flagstaff Hill
09:54 Off the beaten track
11:19 Unexpected detour to Kawakawa - Infamous Hundertwasser Public Toilets
12:33 We made it to PAIHIA!
15:19 Exploring Haruru Falls
23:42 Rainbow Falls
25:34 Next Time
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We are Sam & Christine ✌🏻
In 2022 we left our beautiful little island in the middle of the Irish Sea 🇮🇲 after selling everything we owned and began our travelling adventure!
Our goal is to stay on the road for as long
as possible documenting as we go as best we can. We hope to share with all our friends and family our adventures along the way!
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[@yourlocalexplorers]

incredible how beautiful and dreamy these places are 😍 thanks for this wonderful vlog guys 💛

[@samandchristinetravel]

Thanks for watching guys! ❤️

[@henipeni276]

Great to know you are enjoing your adventures in NZ, but please, your mispronunciation of Maori names is very painful

[@samandchristinetravel]

We hope we got better with the pronunciations but can’t promise anything 🙈😳Thanks for watching!! 🥰