Our last day in Taupo was spent at the Winter Solstice festival complete with music by a homegrown New Zealand band, "Spacifix"...they were pretty good but it was odd as girls were screaming at them at the front and we had no idea who they were. Odd.
Then it was on to Wellington - Capital City! On the way we had stopped for a perfect view of the three volcanoes of Tongariro National Park including Mt. Doom from the Lord of the Rings. The Kiwi's even call it Mount Doom as it's real name, "Ngauruhoe" is really hard to pronounce!
Then we were in Wellington. It was a nice day that day but in the days that followed, so did the rain. But it was ok as there was the big national museum, "Te Papa" (Maori for "Our Place") to keep me occupied as it took three days to get around - my head kept getting full of information and all fuzzy!
We also went to see New Zealand's Parliament which is two buildings, one of which is called "The Beehive" - because it looks like one. It was a free tour (free is good) of which I came out afterwards clutching my parliamentary mints called "Argumints". You could also get "Parliamints" and "Governmints"...Politicians' humour seems to know no bounds!There were also Cathedrals to see (old and new), art galleries and so on...so I was pretty "cultured" out by the end...plus we went to see the new Harry Potter film!
Wellington was really nice and the free evening meals our hostel provided, made it even nicer!
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