Tongariro Crossing North Island

Taking a photo probably would have destroyed my camera, but that's okay. I don't think I'm going to soon forget this hike. Not Mordor. Not Mount Doom. And definitely not the storm. It starts at 7:15am, loading into the bus, and driving a winding road up into the alpine crossing. The air is cool, the weather clear, and I'm ready for the 20km that …

Van een romantisch glooiend landschap naar een actieve vulkaankrater binnen enkele km. Dat kan alleen in Nieuw-Zeeland. Vandaag staat een van 's lands 'great walks' op het programma. De Tangariro crossing. 20 km door een nationaal park over een zadel, door en over meerdere vulkaan kraters en naar beneden langs vulkanische meren en gassen. Eigenlijk …

Entry containing 6 photos titled: Huka Falls, Mountain biking, Lake Taupo, Tongariro Crossing

We drove down south from Auckland to complete what we couldn't before (as the weather was so bad). That was the Tongariro crossing! Said to be New Zealand's best day walk. Tongariro National Park is located in the centre of the North Island and contains many active volcanoes. Including Mt Ruapehu – the tallest point on the north island and …

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Tongariro Crossing-part 1
Opgestaan om 05 u. Ontbeten, picknick en rugzak klaargemaakt. Een half uurtje rijden tot Parking Ketetahi Rd. op 755 m hoogte, waar we de tocht starten. Het weer is nog slechter dan gisteren. Maar de miezerige regen houdt ons niet tegen, we kunnen toch moeilijk een hele dag aan de …

Having left Rotorua, we headed for Taupo where we were given two lovely nights to enjoy ourselves, having arrived at mid afternoon much of the bus took their opportunity to go off and do their skydive whilst I did my laundry and then go and explore the town as i was not going to have much off a chance the following day with me doing the Tongariro …

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Vandaag, zaterdag, van Taupo naar Blue Duck Station in een klein plaatsje Whakahoro. Ik zou eigenlijk om 7 uur klaar moeten staan voor de skydive waarvoor we op de wachtlijst stonden, maar door onze geweldige stapavond gisteren ben ik door de wekker heengeslapen. Helaas is het wel doorgegaan en heb ik het gewoon gemist... Balen zeg. Om …

Our last night in a hotel had now passed and our final activity was upon us. The plan was to do the Tongariro Alpine Crossing and to climb Mount Doom. The night before we were told it was likely to be cancelled due to the extreme weather conditions that were predicted. However we went ahead with the climb regardless. It took somewhere around an …

Another early start to get us on our way for a 2 night stay in Taupo. We were really looking forward to this as we'd booked in for a couple of good activities here - The Tongariro Crossing and a skydive!

On the way to Taupo the driver gave us the option of spending an hour shopping in the town centre or taking a walk through the nearby …

I picked up the Stray bus again after 3 nights in Taupo and our next stop was a place called Blue Duck Lodge (http://www.blueducklodge.co.nz/) at an out-of-the-way spot called Whakahoro (which actually sounds a bit rude if you say if the proper NZ way!). This is a huge 'station' in an area where lots of land was given to soldiers returning from …

The Tongariro Crossing is widely regarded as the best one day walk in New Zealand, and Richard from Wellington had also recommended it to me, and so I decided to give it a shot. Coincidentally, when I went to pay for the bus ticket at Reception the ...

... Estuary. It was a pleasant 2 hour stroll, although the views weren't anywhere near as grand as the ones in Taupo and on the Tongariro Crossing. It seems that my job isn't going to start until April 11th now, and so next week I plan to go on a ...

... Crossing the following day.  This one day hike, ranked as one of the best hikes in New Zealand, would take us 18km up Mount Tongariro (another of the active volcanoes), past Mount Ngarahoe, over past the volcanic craters and then down through lush ...

... a ride home in the stretched limo. We all headed to the pub and swapped stories. On the road again tomorrow, plowing through as I have planned to me Esther in Wellington in a few days. Next stop is the National park ,the Tongariro Crossing and Mt. ...

... chilled for the rest of the evening. The journey was a hard slog, was unplanned when we arrived in New Zealand, and was totally worth it. The Tongariro crossing is one of the world’s best one day hikes. It isn’t technically difficult, it ...

... a Japanese hire car and plenty of inspiration from Jawad, and head off for a couple of days touring around the north island of New Zealand. The drive seems to take forever down freeways and countryside that remind me of roads in the UK. Eventually ...

... , we're in New Zealand and the driving is a pleasure, pretty much all the time. I drove for 3 hours after the Tongariro crossing and then a sleep later I was driving the 330km to Wellington. It Didn't bother me at all. The first 150km were fine and ...

... was at least dry and had interesting information on how the area had been formed. Eager to try and walk the famous Tongariro Crossing we found the track required crampons, ice axes and avalanche equipment, as well as learning that 11 people had had to ...

... this!   Next we took a look at the source of the Huka Falls, Lake Taupo. Like many other lakes in New Zealand's North Island, it is a volcanic lake based in the crater formed during a previous eruption. This particular eruption was in 186AD and ...

... ' in their hotel - was v nice and said our goodbyes. The weather was attempting to clear up so we went down to the Tongariro National Park to try and do a walk and hope that we might at least see some of the nearby volcanoes. After consulting the ...