We left Rotorua for the Waitomo Glow Worm caves. I started driving, for the first time, in this left-handed driving rules country. Like John found, it takes a little while to get used to where to position the car within your lane. Because of the position of the steering wheel, on the opposite side of the car, everything look different. After scaring John a few times with being too close to the left hand side of the left hand lane, I kind of got the hang of it.

I'm sure John will update you on the Glow Worm Cave trip. I didn't take the tour this time.

We then headed for Tongariro National Park. We planned to do the Tongariro Crossing hike the next day, so we thought we'd explore part of the park. As we we're pulling in we saw scenic flights were available and decided to check them out. We ended up taking an awesome flight over the Tongariro Crossing mountain and around Mt. Doom. The cool thing about it was there were just the two of us on the same side of the plane so we constantly got to see the best views. The weather was crystal clear and the landscape was unearthly and very beautiful.

After the flight we checked out the park visitor center and took a short hike to a beautiful waterfall.