New Zealand Memories 3

Next day my plan was to hitch hike again back to Auckland, give it another opportunity and then go to coromandel peninsula, which was meant to be an awesome beautiful place. Looked for couches there, next day made Auckland pretty easy hitch hiking so I though, wtf, im gonna make it till coromandel hitch hiking. On the afternoon I made it to Thames which was the town to enter to the natural paradisiacal place of coromandel beautifulness. Got to my host place where two other young Israelis were coach surfing too. They had a rental car and invited me to go with them to go around the whole national park. First day we got through the beautiful bushes towards a beach where there are hot water springs. Curious. Heaps of people digging on the sand of the beach where out of the deep holes hot water was coming out. The brave ones were getting their bodies inside, wait for the high tide of the cold ocean water to come inside of the hole and create a natural spa!, amazing! Later we went to another beach with huge stones on the edge. One had a huge hole on it product of the erosion of the water. Cathedral cove was the name. Beautiful beach with surprisingly not many people on it. Lovely. The next day we went to the proper national park to get immerse on the beauty of this country. We went hiking up to one of the highest mountains of the area. Pinnacles. So tiring, heaps of beautiful trees, palms and plants in general with and steep end in which the powerful hikers would get the amazing prize of the imponent view of the whole peninsula and park from the really top of the mountain. Worth of 9 hours walking non stop. I was feeling fit. Met some kiwi hikers on the way back that offered me to take me to Thames. We had a beer and some tapas. Then my host came with her partner and we all had dinner.