Otago Peninsula - South Island - NZ

The Otago Peninsula lays right next to Dunedin, one of the bigger cities of NZ. It’s the perfect place for ecotourism and you’ll find lots of sea lions, fur seals, yellow eyed and small blue penguins and even royal albatrosses…and we’ve seen them all. The peninsula isn’t really big, but it has a lot of beautiful deserted bays where you can spot the animals yourself. Again we took some great photos, so check them out…

Mount Cook - South Island - NZ

We drove from Christchurch to Mount Cook and the ride was beautiful. The area around Christchurch looks a bit like Holland because it’s all flat, but once you’ve gone off the highway the scenery is very nice. We drove through the mountain area towards Mount Cook and took some good postcard quality pictures. This area is really stunning this time of the year (first week of December), because of all the flowers (lupines). Once arrived in the late evening at mount Cook we decided to kill our budget and stayed at this fine place called the Hermitage. We had one of our best dining experiences, due to the excellent food and the stunning view right at Mount Cook. We slept in a cozy chalet in stead of our campervan and left the next morning right after breakfast further south to Dunedin…

The children from Caridad

Siargao is a small and beautiful Island in the north of Mindanao right at the rim of the pacific ocean. It doesn’t matter where you stay, although Patrick’s on the Beach is the best place, you have to do an Island tour. Driving around the Island in your rented van or (motor)bicycle is an experience of it’s own. There’s one main road that will take you around the Island. For sure, you are going to pass the most friendliest town on the planet; Caridad.

Make sure that you’ll make a stop here and you’ll be surprised. Drive to the beach and you’ll see an amazing looking bay. The whole place will come running outside to see what the foreigners are doing here. As a foreigner you’re really an attraction and you'll be welcomed like a moviestar. Especially for the children! They’ll scream, laugh, yell and jump on your van, while you’re still driving. It’s an amazing experience. When we got out of our van, the children went bananas! It is so fun to see these children so happy. We took some nice photos from the children and they were having so much fun of it. Even some parents showed proud their little children. After we left again, we realized that we just had visit the most friendliest town on the planet…