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We provide outstanding trips covering all of New Zealand - travel with like-minded travellers from all over the world, saving money with more included on our trips and better local options.
There's total flexibility - you can 'get-on' and 'get-off' anywhere that you want along the way, with up to twelve months to use the pass - perfect for truly backpacking New Zealand.
We have backpacker hostel, budget hotel, lodge and camping accommodation options.
You'll experience local culture, out of the way places and alternative activities - and we'll get you deals on New Zealand's best adventure activities
We link attractions on and off the beaten track, taking time to experience NZ during travel days
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Auckland and the North
over a year ago : 1st April 2007
Set off for the Bay of Islands the following day with the Stray bus. On the way we stopped to see a Giant Kauri tree, snorkel at goat island and the highlight of the day was a talking Tui bird called Woof Woof I could not believe it,...
Day 3: Bay of Islands
over a year ago : 7th March 2007
Id originally booked a sailing excursion to explore the Bay of Islands along with the Irish Snowboarder and another English dude from the Stray bus. But, Id grown seriously weary of their presence, so I decided at the last minute to...
Paihia, Bay of Islands Bay of Islands, New
over a year ago : 6th March 2007
Bay of Islands, New Zealand I'd decided to get on the Stray bus around the areas of the North Island of New Zealand i didn't go to last time i was here. It's basically like the KiwiOz Experience but with less idiots.Everyone on the bus was so nice and freindly. We were heading to the Bay of Islands, Paihia. Met Sophie the BFG...
Paihia, Bay of Islands
over a year ago : 6th March 2007
Everyone on the bus was so nice and freindly. We were heading to the Bay of Islands, Paihia. Met Sophie the BFG from Ipswich while we were waiting for the Stray bus this morning.. Although she was quiet to start with because shed been...
The One with the Pirate Ship
over a year ago : 8th February 2007
Raring to go, we headed off on the stray bus for our mini adventure to the Bay of Islands and Cape Reinga. Our bus journey north in the terrible weather meant that we couldn't stop at Goat Island for Snorkelling so we visited a bird rescue centre instead. Here we met Woof Woof, a talking Tui bird (he sneezes and says he has a cold, and wishes us...
Paihia and Cape Reinga
over a year ago : 7th February 2007
By the time the Stray bus was ready to roll out of town at 4:30, my fellow travelers had already gathered beneath the corrugated metal roof of the hostel pickup point, like refugees on the roof of some third-world hospital waiting to be...
This aint no disco
over a year ago : 3rd February 2007
I was due to leave Auckland on Monday on the Stray bus to the Bay of Islands, intending to stay there overnight and then return for two final nights in Auckland. However, due to an administrative cock-up at the Stray office (apparently,...
The One with Dejavu
over a year ago : 8th January 2007
That evening in Altitude, Fiona, H, Myself, and Bridget (who we met on the stray bus in North Island in Paihia) decide the 4 places on the Bar Bungy. The winner would win a free Nevis Bungy jump, and our logic is, that at least this way...
Bay of Islands
over a year ago : 4th January 2007
Hi again, Ok, some and Elaine booked our Stray tour on the Friday and we were booked to head up to the Bay of Islands on the Saturday. It was an 8am start which i haven't seen for a while then we jumped on a Stray bus heading north. Our driver was called Jarrad and the stops we made on the way to Pahia were pretty lame which he realised so tried...
Travel Blog 4
over a year ago : 1st January 2007
1110 - Spent the day in Paihia, had a wander around and then got the Stray bus back down to Auckland. Spent the night there ready for the start of the tour around all of NZ 1210 - Day 1 - Met our driver Scoobs who is a Maori lad and...
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New Zealand here I come
over a year ago : 7th May 2007
This experience made clear to me, why the STRAY Bus or the Kiwi Experience Bus is called the vagina liner. Anyway, ouir first journey in our orange spaceship lead us up north to the Bay of Islands. When we arrived we could not quite...