New Zealand - Epilogue

After finishing our Te Araroa hike/tramp on the 23 April 2025, we made our way back to Auckland. Hitching our way down, which actually went way smoother than we had anticipated.

The same day as we reached Cape Reinga, we managed to hitchhike to Awanui, then Kaitaia. The day after we got a hitch just out of town, and then to Whangarei, and then Auckland.

We stayed in Auckland for a couple of days, trying to regain some energy. Both of us were exhausted, even if we now weren’t hiking anymore.

On the 28 April we took an Intercity bus to Tauranga. We stayed there for four nights, and tried to do some things while we were there, but the weather wasn’t exactly great. Rainy. We went for some walks and runs, found geocaches but mostly spent our time indoors binge-watching TV-series which wasn’t so bad either!

2 May we took another bus to Rotorua. We went here mainly for a big geocaching-event. A 25 Year Anniversary Block Party Event. Quite a big thing, especially within the New Zealand geocaching community. It was great fun, and we got to meet a lot of other geocachers and went for long walks around Rotorua.

On 5 May we went back to Auckland again together with another geocacher.

6 May was our last full day in Auckland and guess what we spent the time doing, except for packing of course? Well, you guessed it right. We went geocaching 😉

7 May we flew out from Auckland, spent about 10 hours on the flight to Singapore which were exhausting. Only to eat and change flights and then jump on the last flight to Copenhagen. Now about 12 hours flight.

From here we visited some friends and family along the way home. There will be some stops in Malmö, Alvesta, Linköping and Stockholm, before finally arriving back home again ❤️

A long journey has finally come to its end and now its time to slowly ease into “normal life” again. Work. Save money. Plan for the next thing. Whenever and whatever that may be 😊