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Today’s post is dedicated to #Blog4NZ, a grassroots blogging and social media effort to support New Zealand travel in the wake of the Canterbury earthquake.

It’s devastating to hear about natural disaster of many parts of the world especially in New Zealand and most recently Japan. I as a travel blogger feel that we have a platform to help promote the awareness and support them.

I have never been to New Zealand but it’s on the top of my bucket list. Today I want to take you on the virtual tour of many posts I have saved up for my future trip to New Zealand.

Photo Credit: The Road Forks

Dreaming of LOTR Trilogy Epic Tour – It will start of from my own post about our dream trip to visit New Zealand – the vast landscape with beauty and mystic mountain.

New Zealand Visit with the Road Forks – One of my favorite travel couple visited New Zealand last year and I truly enjoyed following their posts. Akila wrote up a detail wrap up post with great suggestion (Hobbit hunting anyone? and Patrick’s pictures make me want to book my flight right there and then.

Adventures in New Zealand with The Planet D – The adventurous couple, the Planet D, arrived in New Zealand right after the Earthquake. I have been following their posts on their trip for awhile. This trip in New Zealand, Dave & Deb definitely put New Zealand to test on their adventurous skills. They have been enjoying their Flying Kiwi Experiences ranging from white water rafting, flying, sky diving and bungy jumping. Whew!!! That’s a LOT of adventure fun in one country.

New Zealand with Kids – Mara at Mother of All Trips has a great post on New Zealand with kids from her research. We are all dreaming about making this trip.

These are just a small set of posts about traveling to New Zealand. To find out more posts about traveling to New Zealand from bloggers around the world check out #Blog4NZ site.

Thanks for reading my feed. Please stop by to say hi or leave a comment! :) Travel Tuesday to New Zealand with #Blog4NZ is a post from: The Q Family Adventures Travel Blog

Today’s dream is for Mr. Rojo. He is a well-traveled guy. When he was a kid, his parents took him all around the world from Saudi Arabia, Europe and Asia. So he thinks his adventure day is over. Too bad he is married to me because I will be dragging him all around the world with the kids again. :) Recently, I asked him.. where do you want to go the most? It took him a good long 10 minutes to come up with the answer – New Zealand.

Why New Zealand you ask? Why not? It’s one of the most beautiful place in the world. It’s the setting of the epic movies – Lord of the Ring Trilogy. And you can guess, we are a big fan of the books and the movies.

I don’t know much about New Zealand but I know we can’t possibly see the whole country in 2 weeks (our typical long vacation time). So today dream trip will be all about LOTR tour.

Where to Stay in New Zealand:

OH.. We can’t fly across the pacific ocean and not stay at the Hobbit Motel. How cool will that be to stay in this cute hotel. The hotel is in the Woodlyn Park near Waitomo about 2 hours from Auckland and actually there are other off-the-wall accommodation like Train Motel (which Mr. Z might try to convince us to stay there) and Plane Motel. What a cool place!

I also dream about renting a camper van and drive around the North Island. But with limited time, we will see if that’s doable.

By Rengber

What to Do in New Zealand with Kids:

When travel with kids, we have to find attractions that also kid-friendly and nothing will scream kid-friendly other than the Kelly Tarlton’s Antarctic Encounter & Underwater World where they can enjoy the underwater world of the Southern sea marine lifes and the Antarctic’s encounter of the penguin colony.

We are dreaming of a visit to Waikato where we begin the journey to the Middle Earth. Ok.. I feel a bit geeky now.. First stop will be Matamata home of the Hobbiton and a tour of the remaining actual set from LOTR movies. We will check out Waitomo Glowworm Caves taking the journey underground to this unique deep limestone shaft illuminated by thousand of tiny creatures that glow.

Then we will spend a day on a hot water beach at Kawhia Harbour in our own newly digged spa pool. Next stop 2 hours to the East is Rotorua – home of the active volcano and Maori village. Kids will enjoy the sight of geyser shooting up the sky and we hope for a Polynesia Spa experience.

Next up, the capital city of New Zealand – Wellington. We are dreaming of visiting several filming sites from the movie and sightseeing around the city.

And if we have more time, we dream even bigger of heading to the South Island and visit Queenstown. The Nomad Safaris seems to be a good choice for the adventure tour for the LOTR fan like us. A half day tour on the jeep to see the magnificent location from the movie set. What else can we dream for!

Now that’s my dream. Check out other travelers’ dreams at Mother of All Trips.

Thanks for reading my feed. Please stop by to say hi or leave a comment! :) Dreaming of: New Zealand: The LOTR Trilogy Epic Tour is a post from: The Q Family Adventures Travel Blog

Thanks for reading my feed. Please stop by to say hi or leave a comment! :) 50 Places of a Lifetime By Intelligent Travel is a post from: The Q Family Adventures Travel Blog