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What a day! Our first full day in Sydney included a coach tour & walking tour of downtown Sydney. We took a ferry ride past the Sydney Opera House, looked out over Sydney from the Sydney Sky Tower, & toured the Hyde Park Barracks.

Hell’s Gate Spa is where some of us headed today. The geothermal mud pool + sulfur pools melted all travel stress away. 🌞 Some of us did a cold plunge challenge for 2 min!!

Then ….we learned about jade, took a gondola 🚠 up a mountain, rode a ‘duck’, visited the agrodome, & ended the night w/ dinner & a show in a Maori village.

We visited the Maori village in Rotorua & got a chance to see their big geothermal geyser. We even ate corn cooked in geothermal HOT water. Very busy day today!!

Enjoying sweet corn cooked in Geothermal baths!

A beautiful day at the Geothermal Māori village learning from our local guides!

At dinner, we celebrated the bday of fellow traveler Katie w/ a Tim Tam cake. To top it off, the flight crew on our long flight wrote us a special note & gave us some swag of decks of cards & keychains. @D127GetsReal @meg_lopez

Our guide Ronan taught us ‘Kia Ora’ = Māori gretting hello/goodbye. Our group boarded our ‘coach’ in Auckland for a 4 hr drive to Rotorua, NZ.

Just landed in Melbourne & we’re waiting for our flight to Auckland, NZ We had the most amazing & kind flight crew w/ Qantas from LAX.

@Ohare passing time before our LAX flight

And we’re off! New Zealand here we come!

Six months ago we began as students, learning how to experience the world as travelers, not just tourists…. Tomorrow we become travelers!

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