Taihape, New Zealand Travel Blogs

"you will see us waving from such great heights"
Dec 29, 2004 (4 photos)

... last left off in Taupo, where we were ready to head off to the River Valley Lodge. Monday morning we boarded the bus to Taihape (Tie-happy), with our English friend, Rachel #2. After trying to find a quick remedy for some bus-induced nausea (Jodie and I ...

Waitomo - Wait a mo, theres nothing here!
Jun 12, 2006 (2 photos)

G'day everyone. Well after the Mauri evening the night before and before we left Rotorua, we made a quick stop off to have a tour around more Mauri Culture, consisting of wooden sculpture making, and more about their lives in general. We did actually get ...

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Oct 18, 2008

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River Valley
Jun 8, 2006 (12 photos)

This place is a lodge in the middle of nowhere (literally - the nearest town is about 40 minutes away) next to a river. Did whitewater rafting on the river which was great fun but very very cold, managed to not fall in although came very close a few times ...

River Valley Lodge!
Jun 3, 2007

Hello!  Spent a week here working as a house keeper!  lots of bed making, dusting hoovering, scrubbing and mopping!  In return i got 3 amazing meals a day, free accomodation, internet, laundry, sauna, jaquzzi, discounted bar tab, ...

Gravity Canyon - Flying Fox
Aug 14, 2005 (2 photos)

After spotting a sign at the side of the road we veered off and headed for the'Gravity Canyon' Lisa and i did the Flying fox. Good fun. Massive climb up. Harrnessed up connected to a zip line. We hurtled at 160mph down in to the canyon and along for ...

An ace funky campsite at Taihape
Jan 28, 2008 (12 photos)

...  campsite and the whole place was ace, just outside the main town, which was a lovely little town. On the way to Taihape we drove through a cool town called Feilding, another place we liked on our way. We stopped at some sightseeing places, and we ...

River Valley Slaves
May 4, 2007 (7 photos)

And so a couple of bus trips later we arrived first in North Island via the capital Wellington and then a few days later in the River Valley Adventure Lodge.  Gemma and Jenna had heard on the grapevine about the possiblity of 'slaving' at the Lodge ...

River Valley
May 16, 2009 (9 photos)

For one night we stayed in a beautiful lodge, situated in the middle of nowhere, aptly called river valley. There was a lovely open fire in the middle of the bar/lounge which was very much welcome. During the day we walked along the river, exploring the ...

Gravity canyon.
Jan 18, 2008 (8 photos)

180 metre zip line fall at 160 kmph. 1 km travelled. We have the DVD as proof cause we don't have any photos of us doing it as we were to busy flying through the air. One of the best activities we've done here for the money you pay and it lasts pretty ...

Far from civilization
Apr 13, 2009 (18 photos)

... in a lodge 30km away from any civilization on the other side of the world. The location is River Valley, New Zealand. The lodge has a spacious open main room where large groups of backpackers gather around tables playing drinking games. Specifically "Ring ...

River valley
May 26, 2007

We are in River Valley today. Its basically an activity lodge in teh middle of no where. Is pretty cool. Big open fire and things and had a big stew meal which was really really nice. Good atmosphere aswell.

Taihape - Gum boots
Nov 25, 2009 (13 photos)

Taihape - the well renowned Gumboot (Wellington) throughing capital of New Zealand - possibly the world. We stayed at the only campsite in town which we shared with sheep and few other campers (including one in a Wicked Camper - see pic). Weather was ...

Remote River Valley
May 16, 2007 (4 photos)

Leaving Taupo we couldn't see Tongario National Park at all. And that was just where we were driving through today. We tried to drive above the clouds but in the end just had a big group photo with a white background, still pretty cool! Then it was on ...

On the road to Taihape
Nov 9, 2006 (1 photos)

... to Taihape. Just beautiful country. Lots and lots and lots of green rolling hills dotted with rocks. Oh wait, those were sheep. Yep, New Zealand the land of sheep lives up to its name. On the first half of the drive I was certain they were wrong as ...

Lord of the rings, flying kiwi eddition
Feb 26, 2007 (15 photos)

We came, we conquered and found mount dome! On sunday 25th February 2007, at 7:30 in the morning we set out to hike New Zealand's most famous day hike known as Tongariro crossing. It is 17 kms and the average time which takes to do the crossing is ...

A carrot, a tank & a boot
Jan 15, 2009 (15 photos)

Distance 60.16km (about 4km unloaded), Max 58.90km/hr, Avs 16.46km/hr  Today we cycled from a town with giant metal carrot to the gum boot capital of the world, complete with giant metal gum boot, stopping for lunch at a little town and taking ...

River Valley
Jan 5, 2008

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Rivers, Falls and Volcanoes
Jul 4, 2009 (7 photos)

We headed south to Turangi for a brief lunch stop then onto Tongariro national park where we took a walk to Taranaki Falls. We kept forgetting the name of the falls whilst walking around and were referring to them as Teryaki Falls the whole time. The park ...

weekend away in River Valley
Jan 23, 2005 (2 photos)

Hey babies!! I'm sitting in the mid-day heat with my cousin in New Zealand north island. I've just been white water rafting down 13km of up to grade 5 rapids which was well cool! We're 2 hours north of Palmy at a river valley lodge with some awesome rapids ...

A puddle.
Oct 8, 2009

* We walked in the Tongariro NP, in the snow, on a volcano.  That was pretty cool.  Me and Je learned from our wee Vesuvius incident and DIDN'T wear flip flops.  Half of the bus didn't have this prior insight however.  Oh, how we ...

River Valley
Dec 3, 2005 (2 photos)

River Valley

Christmas '09
Dec 25, 2009 (23 photos)

... way there which I shall put up.  One thing we have noticed is the amount of fast food places here. Take for example Taihape, a town roughly the same population as Balaklava, except not quite as large size wise. It has a McDonalds, KFC and a Subway.& ...

Bigger and Better Things
Nov 8, 2009 (4 photos)

... in teh group. The others are planning to run the Rangitikei this week, but I don't think I have enough experience to run class V New Zealand whitewater, so I am kind of teh lame duck. I am looking forward to seeing the process and getting a boat. I want to ...

Camping on the river
Jan 20, 2006

After the tough hike we hopped in the vans and headed to our camping spot. This is the first night we were to camp. So far it has been in traditional Mauri style houses and hostals. Most of the kids I am with are not much for camping. We often ge ...

River Valley - oh yeah :)
Dec 16, 2007

River Valley - I love this place!!! went horse trekking, which was SOOOO much fun :) other than that it is an awesome place to sit down, relax...swim in the river...jsut do a whole lot of not too much and have fun :) LOVE IT!

Trabajando en Mount Ruapehu
Jun 14, 2007 (6 photos)

Llegamos a la nieve! Vivimos en el medio del campo rodeados de ovejas y ciervos, con una vista hermosa pero un fresquete impresionante!

Yeh!
Dec 23, 2009

Hi all, Just an extremely brief note to inform you that we both have the next 3 days off (one of them being christmas day) and are heading into town today with brian to find a vehicle which will be make days off more exciting as we can actually go places. ...

I'm Still Alive!
Nov 10, 2009 (3 photos)

... I went on teh river. I was not planning to run this river since it is class V, which is incredibly difficult, especially in New Zealand where the rivers are more technical and the consequences are much harsher. The others told me that I would be able to ...

Ruahine Ranges
Jun 23, 2005 (2 photos)

Hi People, Today we drove south to the closest big mountain ranges called the Ruahine Ranges, after stopping off for a 'flat white' (coffee) we ventured in to the heart of the mountains to do some tramping(hiking) for a couple of hours, with nothing to ...