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Taranaki Slideshow
Taranaki
Travel Blogs from Taranaki, New Zealand
Caught by the Taranakis
This is a top pick! ... like the cult members that we are, we donned black polo-necks, angled our heads and entered the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Zealand's only modern art gallery. The standard paintings of nursery quality were glanced at and dismissed as usual but in one ...
Going Underground ...Wet Waitomo
This is a top pick! 5th August 2005. The morning was free due to the skydive yesterday (and Sarah was still grinning from ear to ear) so we went to see Huka falls, spent some time around the thermal springs and went fishing for prawns. What a waste of money that was. ...
Black Water Rafting
This is a top pick! ... a bit faster than usual, I think it only added to the excitement (other didn't agree). Anyhow 4hrs later and we were back into the sunshine and another awesome day over and done with. A new one for KT and she was stoked, action girl in the ...
Rap, Raft and Rock
This is a top pick! ... in the forest and it started to rain again as we got here. Have re-established ourselves in our 'campsite' but have new neighbours now! Are off to do some thermal sites tomorrow and then Rotorua. Gales predicted the next few days but fingers crossed ...
Glow Worm Caves
This is a top pick! There are a little bunch of caves in this place that are full of Glow Worms. Basically thier arses glow in the dark and look like little stars in the blackness of the caves. We took a boat through the caves and the cieling was sparkling like the night ...
Volcano country
This is a top pick! Hmmm.... Well apparently I've just spent 3 days in volcano country. But I'm not entirely sure because I've not been able to see anything! It's been really horrible weather for the last few days, either raining, or threatening to. The worst thing ...
Surf Highway
This is a top pick! ... beach access or mountain access. This whole mass of land is sparsely inhabited and as you quietly rotate around the clock, Mt Taranaki maintains its dominating presence in your side window. It's all very imposing. Back down at the beach camp we got ...
Waitomo Caves
This is a top pick! Arrived in Waitomo yesterday afternoon and went straight to the visitor's centre to book our trip to the glowworm caves. The company we went with was called Spellbound. We then went to Waitomo Tavern to watch the Lions play against Southland which they ...
Waitomo Caves: The Black Abyss
This is a top pick! 4-19 Black Water Rafting...the Black Abyss Andrea: Since everything in New Zealand closes at about 6pm, we decided to just crash last night in the camper. Thank God we got the upgraded camper with a bathroom!!! Anyways, we slept ...
adventure weekend cont.
After breakfast we all continued on the road. We stopped in Waverly for some lunch, which we could just stop and make in our camper van. House on wheels = best thing ever. We got to Opunake Beach Park before the sun went down and were able to explore the ...
Waitomo
Waitomo is a very tiny village. The hostel is really lovely - more like a hotel really and the rooms are smaller so most of us are in 3's and there loads of room for luggage. That's the only problem with being in places for such a short time...the ...
Black Water Caving
... . Back home she is an air traffic controller for the airforce. Very interesting career choice. Tomorrow we leave for Hamilton. Our time in New Zealand is quickly ending. It's hard to believe that in a week we say good bye to NZ and hello - once again ...
Waitomo Caves
After a good few hours travelling along New Zealand's famous gravel roads...oh, it looks much shorter on the map!...we pulled up to see some cool glow worm caves. We did the family style trip which meant we were with some funny characters, but none more ...
Glow Worm Caves
The bus ride from Rotorua to Waitomo was about 2.5hrs long. I was a little worried since it has been storming all morning & our bus driver told us that if the caves filled up with too much water then we wouldn't be able to go on the boat. I did rain a ...
Heading over to New Plymouth!!
We had a really long drive, and we headed across to the west coast, where, on the way, we drove between Te Kuiti and Tongaporutu, on highway number 3, it was such an amazing drive, we played the tunes loud in the van and soaked in the views, they ...
Bula, Fiji
... are having a final swim. jAs sad as we are to leave Fiji so soon, we are excited to meet the rest of the group tomorrow in New Zealand. We have a wake up call of 5:30, so everyone will go to bed early. YOu would all be so proud of your daughters. They ...
Rotorua to Waitomo
In the morning we went to Te Puia - New Zealand''s most famous thermal area - where we saw the geysers explode, boiling mud pools, a kiwi bird, and a maori carving workshop. This place is wierd!!! En route to Waitomo we had a random stop to see ...
Waitomo
The name Waitomo in Maori means Wai (water) and tomo (hole or shaft). It is an appropriate name considering the Waitomo area is covered in shafts dropping abruptly into underground cave systems and streams. There are more than 300 mapped caves in the ...
Geen tijd om uit te slapen, op weg naar Taranaki!
Op nieuwjaarsdag gaan we direct weer reizen op weg naar Taranaki en Mount ...
Waitomo
Waitomo Caves are a great place to escape the sunlight - miles of underground tunnels carved out of the limestone by underground rivers and a perfect habitat for glow-worms. We got into the caves via a 100m abseil and then proceeded to swim, wade and ...
Mount Egmont - Der perfekte Kegelvulkan
... ins Eis hackt und nach fast 5 Stunden Aufstieg stehe ich doch glatt auf 2518 metern, auf dem Gipfel des Taranaki. Umgeben von bizarren Eisformationen bietet sich eine grandiose Aussicht auf die suedliche Nordinsel. Der Abstieg dauert noch einmal ...
Dargaville and Waitomo
... a baby's rattle come teething ring though probably not to the standard for Carls shop. We waved a sad farewell to our new friends in Dargaville and headed south for Waitomo Caves.We had bad weather here and only stayed overnight before heading down to ...
The North Island
... were supposed to be glow worms, but we couldn't locate the path in the dark. Taupo was our next stop - the main town on New Zealands largest lake, Lake Taupo. It is a cool town, with lots of stuff to do, including loads of thermal stuff (our campsite ...
Going underground
... . As we were getting out of the van, a big coach pulled up behind us and out came John and Andrew whom we had spent new years eve with and some time in Piahia. Wow what a coincidence I hear you say, but next out was the driver of the coach - ...
Waitomo Caves
I went "Blackwater rafting" in the caves near Waitomo which basically consisted of going down an underwater river in pitch blackness sat in a big inner tube - with a few water falls thrown in to make it more interesting!! It was actually really good fun, ...
All no am WWOOFen
... 5 mm Hartfaserplatte von einer plätschernden Erleichterung. AAAA Mahlzeit! Details: Von Waitara aus sieht man den Mt. Taranaki perfekt. Der relativ junge Vulkan wurde von James Cook nach einem englischen Edelmann in Mt. Egmont umbenannt. ...
More tubing
Another big activity on the North Island is to go caving to see the Glow worms. I decided to go tubing where we would have to do a little bit of caving and most importantly sit in rubber tube looking at glow worms. Umm. Actually what happened is ...
Canoeing the Whanganui River
From Tamauranui we drove to Whakahoro where we spent the night in a DOC campsite. We booked to go canoeing with 'Wades' and spent a good chink of the evening talking to Nick and Ben, who worked there. Thanks to Nick we now know alot about the Maori ...