Jinji Sadan

I am full of adrenalin, full of excitement from the road and feel got much power from the place that I just been.

The last 2 days were “something to talk about” in the beginning it was cloudy and the heavy rain got to my mind but as the Beatles said :”here come the sun” so its alright…

the rainbow that came from the ocean made me forget the rain and was happy to see that the day is going to be clear.

the rainbow gate

If there is something extreme In the weather here is THE SUN ,she is so strong that you feel that your brain is cooked inside the head and even with all the sunscreen that I put with the long sleeve shirt in the end of the day you feel that you got beaten from the sun, I felt like this only in the high Himalayas or the high Andes. The sun here is notorious and pleas make sure that you going to put suncream before going to face the sun here.

And after I finished with the “education corner” of this post I can move on to the next one.

are you ready?

Me and etamar entered to the last leg of our journey,the far north, and there is only one place that I could think of ending crossing this country. Cape rienga is the place where the Tasmanian sea and the pacific ocean meets and native (the Maoris) believe the its the place where the spirits of the Maoris dead departure from new zeal and and beginning there long journey to there ancestral homeland.

The road to this place took us cycling on the “90 mile beach” and for the first time I cycled on a hard sand beach, really close to the waves and the fishes. One side is the sea the other is the sand dunes.

Many fisherman are seating on the road and we helped one of them to get the net out and we earned a really big fish to our dinner that day.

dinner is coming

I my journey I saw almost everything and there is not many things that will surprise me but when I saw a small pinguiun running between my wheels I thought that it cant be true…

he looked lost so I took him back to the sea and said goodbye.

a friend from the sea

We cycled 50km on the beach and we camped on it and could not believe the things that we saw in one day. We looked on the photos in the camera and start to lough about all the crazy stuff that can happen in one day but we were also a bit sad, that was the last evening toghter in our journey and the day latter we will get to the top and will end the crossing of this country.

We celebrated our last night in the tour with wine and we looked at the sunset and if he weren’t an guy that looked like borat I will think that its was a romantic moment.

Oh well maybe next time I will add a women to my journeys.

There is many differences between a journey to a travel and one of them is the bonding with the friends that you meet on the journey. Friends that you meet on a “normal” traveling is most of the time “one time use” and after you continued your travels you forgetting them but the friends that you meet on the journey will stay in your heart all your life.

It more or less remind me of the friends from the army time, together we overcome challenging moments and get stronger from each other.

Etamar was a great companion to me and I we had amazing and rewarding time and I will miss the days of the “together” when I will cross the deserts of Australia soon.

go Borat go!

The last day of the new zealand ride was a day to remember- on a perfect day we rode to cape Rienga the top of the far north of the island a place where the Tasmanian sea meets the pacific ocean .

this is the end!

There is a beautiful light house that is the symbol of this magic place.

You can actually see the meeting point and we really earned this view.

the meeting point in the sea

There is a sign with distances for places all over the world’ places that I have been that I start to forget but one place that I will now start my journey to meet this city.

we did it!

We took a long bus to Auckland and I had flight 2 days latter.

Sidney- here we go.

thank you new zealand it was amazing to meet you with your nice places and amazing people.

Love you all

Roei “jinji” Sadan

end of new zealand chapter

the world

OK , long time without writing here , I was too busy cycling and sometimes you need to wait for the right time before you write something.

The north island of new zealand is not as “famous” as his southern brother, less tourists and more locals and maybe because of that we were enjoying so much from this part of the country. The locals are really friendly (even more then the southern brothers) and every day we asked to camp in farms and we had the chance to see how this farmers live: one is having cattle of ships and the other making cheese from water buffalo, they like to be self suffusion as much as they can they making there own meat and there own beer(much more important for some people…).

even the pigs here like beer!!!

There is more traffic then in the south island but we took side roads and we felt alone with the amazing nature, the weather is unstable and we got days with a lot of rain like an old women told me after she looked at the sky : “it seems like you going to have a wet pans today!” sometimes we took shelters in barns and make a hot and strong coffee while we were waiting for the rain from the sky to stop.

wet and ugly feet

One road took as to a villages name Athens and after that to London but we were surprised to see even a village called Jerusalem! 20Km from this village and out of it we had dirt road with many climbs so its funny to think that even the new zealand Jerusalem will taste your limits and nothing come easy …

even in the end of the world-jerusalem

to enter to Auckland city was pretty “interesting”,its the biggest city in new zealand with trucks and heavy traffic and like everywhere in the world there is many road signs of the “new best thing in life” or “what kind of cream you need to take to look as good as the model on the sign” and of course I got to have the I phone 4 to have much better life then before. Searching for the imposicle

Every where in the world people think that they need to wait in a Que for there dream.

Sad but true and I will wait to the I phone 10.

thats the way to wake up!

one of the tools that I got in the journey is a bigger perspective of life and I could understand that the people that told me that entering to Auckland city will be hell never enter Istanbul or Nairobi on a bicycle…

with josh and billy

in Auckland we meet David, a young cyclist that we meet in the south island and it was nice to see the city with him ,Auckland is nice city very green and they even have a mountain with the name of Eden (like my sponsors) and the sunset from this hill was great with good colors with the skyline of the city was magic moment.

mount Eden

David wrote an article about me in the local paper with a lot of passion for the dream and for the road that only guys that have been on the road can understand .

keep on keep on paddling

I sorted out my visa back to Australia and payed my way to my last visa in this journey and me and etamat were happy to be again on the road and to earn our rice with meet (different sauce every day), believe me that after a long day of cycling everything is much taster and we had amazing dinner together.

We started out last leg of the journey in new zealand and worked our way up on the beautiful Bay of Island a place with great beaches and small islands everywhere but again even in this gorgeous place you can see that the locals will be prettier then the landscape.

bay of island

The next chapter will be getting to the top of new zealand to cape brienga where the Tasmanian sea meets the pacific ocean and where we will finish our journey in this country .

It will be a magic time.

Love you all

roei “jinji” sadan

close to the top of far north

new zealand

The world