Exploring New Zealand’s North Island’s INCREDIBLE highlights. Let us take you there!

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We Explore NEW ZEALAND! Welcomoe to our latest vlog where we experience everything that New Zealand has to offer on a brilliant Riviera Travel land tour! Join us as we explore the North Island and the South Island and reach places not available to us easily on a cruise. In this part we explore the North Island from top to bottom, experiencing 'the hole in the rock', treacherous pools of sulphuric death and a terrifying Mauri welcome!
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[@ManWhoLovesTheMary]

New Zealand really is a unique place all on its own. Dare I admit, I couldn’t help but relate it to Australia before. But it’s like comparing southern or Mid Western states in the U.S. You just can’t. Indiana and Missouri are quite different, indeed. So much native history in New Zealand as well that I didn’t know about. That tree walk looks incredible. What an enriching country.

[@visitwithus]

Indeed, two very different counties

[@jenaya_laila2442]

Your filming and editing skills are amazing!

[@visitwithus]

Thank you so much 😊

[@exploreearth6275]

Amazing video Rotorua is truly amazing

[@visitwithus]

Thanks for watching 👍

[@helenfox2783]

YOUR VOICE !!! OMG its so lovely to listen to. Im going to South Africa with Rivera in Sept. Cant wait

[@visitwithus]

Haha, thank you ☺️ We loved our Riviera land tour and would love to try more. Our NZ your guide said that South Africa was her favourite tour so think you’ll have an amazing time 😍

[@kimroberts2292]

Fabulous video. Love NZ ❤

[@visitwithus]

Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching 😊

[@ordelmere]

Nice filming. We went in mid Dec and Jan and we’re very lucky with the weather it was hot for us. Back home in England was bad snow the year we went. We spent three days in Bay of island and Christmas Day was very different seeing lots In Christmas hats on the beach. We went through the rocks in a very fast boat and even after sun cream we got a bit burnt as the wind blew our hair back. We enjoyed Auckland and north island. We never experienced too much smell in Rotorua luckily. We visited South Island which we enjoyed too. We will watch your film on South Island too.

[@visitwithus]

Thank you for watching and commenting 👍 Tbf we were quite lucky with the weather in the whole, but it was quite tropical in the Bay of Islands 😁

[@jocoul7476]

Really enjoyed your video.....loving the series so far.🙂

[@visitwithus]

Thank you so much. Can’t wait to show you the final part - South Island! 😊

[@cherifurr3935]

I REALLY want to go there! A land tour sounds good; will have to look into tour groups from the U.S.

[@visitwithus]

We loved it Cheri ❤️ Thanks for watching.

[@bryanedwards9888]

Thoroughly enjoy watching both of you present so many spectacular ships and places around the world. I was rather surprised you had been to NZ and started off in my current home city Auckland. Mince and cheese, always perceived as a local and very popular pie, but the Aussies certainly have them as well. I have a close friend who is an Australian who says he thinks they are a more recent thing over there but perhaps its the Pavlova argument all over again...

[@visitwithus]

Hmmm, getting hungry thinking about mince and cheese pies 😋 Hope we get back to NZ soon 🤞 Thanks for watching.

[@ExUtiku]

Believe it or not you actually get used to the odour in Rotorua and after a while you don't even notice it and I for one can guarantee that I would prefer Rotorua's natural odour over the natural odour that is almost a certainty after a good feed of Mexican 🥁🥁🥁 lol ... thoroughly enjoying your vid's of your NZ trip and your quirky quips ... and tell your friends back in Blighty that if they want to visit NZ that our climate is temperate not tropical and that four seasons in one day is not at all unusual anywhere in any of the islands (I have seen 6 inches of snow on the ground in the Central Nth Island in both December and January) and usually the best (read most stable) weather is from mid January thru to early April.

[@visitwithus]

Thanks for watching and for your advice on the weather. As Brits we live nothing more than talking about the weather 😂

[@jamesh1641]

Oh my God. How did I miss last week’s video? Going to watch it right now.

[@visitwithus]

Hope you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching 👍

[@deanrobinsongroup6348]

Mince and cheese pies sounds like a NZ thing. Pavlova on the other hand, we (Australia) and New Zealand both lay claim to. Great video, really enjoyed it, particularly as we were in NZ in late March/early April 2023 on Celebrity Eclipse out of Sydney. Sorry you missed Napier, it was beautiful. Looking forward to the next episode.

[@visitwithus]

Thanks Dean. We’re hoping to get back there in the next year or two (we loved it so much) and will make sure to get to Napier 👍

[@paulkeay5032]

We did that hole in the wall tour a few years ago. The boar doubled as the postal service to some islands. We sat outside and by the end of the tour we were feeling a bit wobbly. We went indoors to get a drink and found loads of people lying on the floor seasick

[@visitwithus]

Haha, yes the sea gets a little wild round there. Thanks for watching 👍

[@Itsmylife414]

Newzealand is beautiful

[@visitwithus]

Isn’t it! Thanks for watching ☺️

[@joannemconie1594]

Enjoyed watching your video it brought back memories of our time in New Zealand January 2023. We didnt make it through the hole in the rock it was too rough and very rainy the day we went. We had the cyclone hitting New Zealand when we were in Auckland. Looking forward to part 2

[@visitwithus]

Thanks Joanne, glad you enjoyed it 🤩

[@sciangear4782]

Oh yeah, Auckland was underwater the last weekend of January that year! Nowhere near as bad as Hawke's Bay though

[@FraserAtSea]

After that intro, I had to instantly fast forward to the cave moment - the speed of the boat heading towards the rocks made me feel just a little uncomfortable, ha! Also, the sea was SO rocky that day - hope you packed a few 'comfort bags' to be on the safe side...!!

[@visitwithus]

It was an incredible experience and one that many people miss because of the condition of the seas - we were very ‘lucky’ 😂😂😂 Thanks for watching Fraser 👍

[@rossclover1023]

Well done guys.

[@visitwithus]

Thank you ☺️

[@warrenwolf4690]

Did you visit the glow worm caves? At the Maoraie did you learn the Legend of Kupe? The history of how the Māori people came to New Zealand We enjoyed our time in New Zealand😊

[@visitwithus]

We visited glow worm caves the Tasmania so didn’t do it in NZ but a lot of our trip encompassed dining out about Mauroi culture and we loved how NZ seems to be embracing it’s history 😍

[@jaramtata6592]

what was the song when you were at the greenstone that wasbeautifull,

[@gooper128]

When you're falling in a forest and there's nobody around Do you ever really crash, or even make a sound?

[@harrycurrie9664]

As a youngster I had a favourite place in the old forest, a knol beneath the trees covered in pine needles where at a certain time of day the sun penetrated the canopy for 30 minutes, I would lay there soaking up the sounds of the birds in the warm sun. Heavenly.

[@allagashandlulu]

hi there! a bit curious about your canceled journey to Napier - the cyclone had hit in 2022 so I think it's quite open for business in Nov 2023. Is this an old video?

[@elainebyrne1039]

Yes

[@visitwithus]

Hi and thanks for watching. We were in New Zealand of February this year just after the cyclone struck.

[@allagashandlulu]

@@visitwithus ah my mistake. that makes sense! We will be there in December this year

[@lauriesteinhauser8768]

We were there in February 2023 at the Treaty grounds when the winds started howling and by the next morning the once in a century cyclone hit and we were stuck in our hotel room. It was storming like you can’t imagine. The power kept going on and off. We were so disappointed to come all the way from San Diego only to be stuck in our hotel room when we were supposed to be on the same boat ride through the hole in the rock. Somehow we made it back to Auckland driving through flooded countryside and snapped trees. We were able to complete our 3 week luxury coach trip through the north and south islands. I must say New Zealand is one of the most beautiful countries in the world even with less than ideal weather………BTW we choose to come in February because it was supposed to be the best month to visit. Thanks Mother Nature 😎

[@cyanide7270]

"Mince and cheese pie is strangely repulsive" As a Kiwi..... how dare.......

[@visitwithus]

Impulsive! Strangely IMpulsive! We ate a LOT of them. Delicious! 😍

[@sciangear4782]

Always blow on the pie 😊

[@grahamcook9289]

You are both so trim that I suspect you didn't any of those meals.

[@visitwithus]

Haha, thank you but we do. We try to choose the healthy options if possible and we lead quite active lifestyles.

[@grahamcook9289]

Why do a coach tour of NZ? As there are two of you, you don't need the company of others, you both appear young enough to still be able to share the driving, the language in NZ is no problem, and NZ is incredibly safe, even for tourists, so you don't need a tour guide. Could you not have followed the same itinerary, stayed in the same accommodation, done the same excursions and arranged your own flights for significantly less? Please explain.

[@visitwithus]

We don’t really have the time to research all of the things we would want to do and arrange all of the hotel stays etc so we chose this option and really enjoyed it. We liked travelling with others and making new friends and having someone else worry about the schedules and planning. Hope that helps.