Australia New Zealand and the Pacific Islands further out form the Continent will will call Australia and Oceania. You could spend a lifetime in this part of the world but we suggest you not as the culture is divided pretty much by the antipodean or aussie way which I think to me at least is quite similar to that of New Zealand and then there are the Islands like Fiji where the culture is dramatically different.
Australia is so large that some cities like Darwin in the north are closer to Bali in Indonesia than to Sydney in Australia.
Many backpackers from the UK visit Australia as its heavily advertised and popular a bit less so New Zealand after all its a bloody long way !
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Would you believe its nearly 6 weeks in NZ, and its time to move on to Australia.. So what have I been up to for the past 6 weeks?
Spent the first few days dosing in and around Auckland, visiting some of the suburbs around Auckland.. and of course figuring out what to do with my time in NZ. I decided to join Kiwi Experience for the South Island, and to do North Island by car (Bustermobile in the pics I sent out) with some dudes I met in Rio. Left Auckland and headed up to the Northlands area ?bay of islands, cape reinga etc. but the weather wasn’t on our side and so instead of taking a boat trip to the islands like we wanted to, we ended up loafing around Pahia. Carried on driving up north to the most northern point in NZ and picked up a Spanish hitchhiker along the way back down. Spent a couple of days driving back to Auckland via the west coast of the northern tip and stopping at random places as and when we felt like it.