Little Rimu
Travel Blogs from Taupo
Mud, Water, Rain, Soup
... we passed through Haka falls, which is so powerful, it powers most of the North Island's electricity. The water is this amazing aquamarine blue, like much of the sea we saw in Australia, and I found myself wishing, for not the first time, that it would stop raining. It didn't. Instead on arrival, we settled into our hostel room and went in search of food. We found a little Thai cafe, ordering huge boiling Tom ...
Sur la route de Taupo, Wai-o- Tapu et Huka Fall
... de Taupo qui est la ville des
sports extrêmes de la l’île du Nord. Une ville de seulement 20 000 hab
mais qui à l’air de bouger. On peut y faire du Saut à l’élastique, divers
sports nautique ( stand up paddle, voile, plongée,canoë cayak…) et surtout, du
saut en parachute (c’est quasiment la capitale de cette discipline dans le
monde). A vrai dire, on pense, de plus en plus sérieusement à faire le grand
...
Jumping out of planes and that
... brain struggles to comprehend just how high you are, so I was told. Amos gave me some last minute instructions which I hoped weren't too important as I did not hear a word of them. My main fear was if I would have the horrible sensation of my stomach going but thankfully the only feeling was sheer ecstacy. During the freefall we travelled 10,000 feet in 45 seconds so that is some rush.
At 5,000 ft I felt Amos pull the parachute chord and thankfully I ...
Wednesday day 38
... fun and the drop wasnt all that bad, even tho i screamed a little big, it was really good gun. we spsent about an hour on the water, the guys kept trying to capsize us and make us sit in the front of the raft then stick us head first under the waterfalls lol, we didnt capsise on the big drop tho which was unusally but im glad we didnt lol. After the rafting and buying of the photos, yep got it all on disk :) we got a lift back into the town where ...
The Calm before the Storm
... another interesting point of note for a tourist in NZ: the birds. Every walk I've been on, I've noticed far more birds of a variety of species and many I don't recognise, namely a lot of Tui and Fantails. Tui are a native bird (a locally brewed beer has been named after it) and an intelligent species which mimic sounds around them...so G has great fun making ridiculous noises as we walk which, remarkably, are copied in echo in the distance. Not being competitive at all, ...
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