3. Heading South

We picked up our rental car and headed south from Auckland to Rotorua. Most vehicles here are from Asian companies - Mitsubishi, Toyota, Mazda, Hyundai. Ours is a Chinese model - GWM tank. A nice looking car with completely unnecessary (for our purposes) 4 wheel drive. The roads are all well signed and paved. There is.a heavy indigenous people presence here (more to come on that later). The country is filled with green rolling hills (at least so far) and Mike is handling the opposite side of the road driving deftly.Read more