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Taumarunui
Travel Blogs from Taumarunui, New Zealand
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A Family Affair
This is a top pick! ... ;d emigrated to New Zealand. (Hi, Arleigh!) She was from Seattle, of all places, so we instantly started chatting about Washington, New Zealand, quality of life, Kiwis, healthcare, blogs, you name it. She even gave me tips about emigrating. Katie and I ...
Mount Ngauruhoe
Hoping for better weather than we got yesterday at Mount Egmont, we arrived at Mount Ngauruhoe (The Lord of the Rings' Mount Doom) to go on a tramp along part of the Tongariro Crossing. Unfortunately the rain and mist followed us here so we scratched our ...
In the middle of nowhere
After a relative lie-in we set on our way to Blue Duck Lodge, an incredibly isolated goat and cattle station that has only recently been added to Stray's overnight stops. To get there you drive along a very windy road along which the only inhabitants ...
Auckland to Mordor to River Valley Lodge
Today we too long drive from Auckland to our stay at the River Valley Lodge. Along the way we made a stop in Mordor. No really, it was the place they filmed a lot of fight scenes of the hobbits climbing around and a few orc fights. We looked but the ...
Find the Blue Duck
Nach dem anstrengenden Tag gestern, ging es heute sehr früh weiter. Abfahrt 0700. Unser Ziel wurde uns noch nicht verraten, es wurde lediglich angeordnet, dass wir Schwimmsachen anhaben sollen. Wir tappten also im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes im Dunkeln. ...
Forgotten World Highway
... terrain you can think of for a traveller to explore, the more we drive the more fantastic things we discover about New Zealand. Volcanoes, mountains, lakes, sand dunes, beaches, lush rainforests, geothermal activity, masses of green fields (and sheep) ...
The Middle Of Nowhere
It wasn't too early of a start today as we weren’t going that far, so Rhi and I jumped on yet another new Stray bus, our driver was another woman – this time called Motors – and I have no idea why so don’t ask… she was lovely ...
Tongariro National Park
Cooking our own breakfast was top on our to-do-list, if only we'd known it would take two hours with out not-so-hot grill but the results were worth every hour! We headed south to the Waitomo Caves where we took a pitch-black boat-ride through the caves ...
Three days on the Whanganui River
... at the night of Misty's birthday was a join location, kept up by the Maori (Polynesians that came to the islands of New Zealand about 600 years before Europeans came) and the department of conservation (government agency) We were the first arrivals for ...
Wanganui canoe trip to Nowhere!
... the boys having their chance to get reconnected, and us girls getting to know one another. We passed more of that amazing New Zealand vegetative diversity, some now becoming familiar, others causing us to take pause and admire. It's all still ...
Paddling down the river
New Zealand has nine walks that are categorized as 'Great Walks' because they pass through amazing scenery. But one of those walks is not actually a walk.....its a paddle. For nearly 150km the Whanganui river passes through the Whanganui National Park and ...
A Great Walk that Isn't
... Rotorua as we'd been there before and stopped overnight in Lake Taupo. Our plan was to head to Tongariro and do one of New Zealand's Great Walks around the volcanic National Park there. The weather took a turn for the worse though and the forecast for ...
Day 207
Ugh, feel a bit knackered this morning. No surprise there then. Get up and go to have a shower, and find an empty condom wrapper outside the bathroom door. So, someone had a good night then. Go into the bathroom, and discover the, er, 'used contents' of ...
Whanganui River Kayak Tour
Da meine unteren Gliedmassen nach den Tongariro Crossing wieder einmal recht lahm waren musste fuer den naechsten Tag noch schnell eine Aktivitaet fuer andere Regionen des Koerpers gebucht werden: Da boten sich 3 Tage lang Paddeln ja geradezu an! ...
Sun and Mountain walks
more snow had fallen during the night but we were not cold, why? because we had our goose feathered sleeping bags 9from oz), with 2 duvets over the top! After the disappointment of not being able to do the Tongariro crossing, we were told (and ...
Ducks and waterfalls!
This morning we hopped on the bus and were headed for Whakahoro and the Blue Duck Lodge which would be our hostel for the evening. We headed back round Lake Taupo and on to the most remote part of the north island which lived up to its name as they had ...
Ci vorrebbe un compagno
... , che lascio in un ostello sulla strada, la conversazione è piacevole e di compagnia. Mi fermerò in questo posto dimenticato da tutta la Nuova Zelanda: Taumarunui. Mi prendo una stanza in una bettola e scrivo. Canto e scrivo. Che bella la Nuova ...
Friday the 13th
Friday the 13th is considered unlucky to most but it has always been a lucky day for me. This time we were fortunate enough to be in Taupo on one of the few days the Tongaririo Crossing opened for hiking. Three Canadian ladies - Shannon, Holly and Liz- ...
Caving and Glow worms
Waitomo is famous for its caves. So our first stop on the north island was this place and we did some Tumu Tumu Toobing which involves alot of climbing around caves, floating on tubes along water and looking at glow worms. It was pretty cool I must ...
Snow, Hail and wind
Just to show you how bored we were, we visited this morning the National Trout Centre, which was actually very interesting. Apparently Turnagi is the mecca for trout fishing! A shame we are not fishermen! Finally went up the mountain and booked in ...
NZ Pt1: North Island cruising, skinning and riding
We arrived on the showering shores of Auckland,New Zealand from sunny HK with little in the way of plans, only requiring to get to Christchurch by the 14th August to jump onto a plane (hopefully not an airbus!) to Sydney. Without a vehicle it'd be ...
The road to nowhere
Our journey today would take us on the Forgotten World Highway from Stratford to Taumarunui, a heritage trail through hilly bushland and forest. We had been warned that the route would be long, unsealed in parts and shop/petrol free, so we stopped in ...
Happy Valentines!
What a lovely day to have a lie in! We left National Park at 11 am and headed to our next desitination which was Blue Duck Station (or Whakahoro as the place name is known). Just to advise that you pronounce Whakahoro with a Fu, not a Wha! ...
The Forgotten World Highway
... settlers who first lived in the area, and although it was interesting background for the road trip, it did not enhance it. The history of New Zealand is so modern that it does not differ from our own. In fact the currency on show in the "historic" bank is ...
TONGARIO !!! -- on a sunny day
... Natioanl Park is the oldest in New Zealand and one of the earliest UNESCO World Heritage sites. Of all the good hiking tracks in New Zealand, Tongario is the best "one day" tramping track in the country. And of course in the movie "The Lord of the Rings" ...
North Island Tour
... of exhibitions to tell the stories and display the taonga (treasures) of the Maori people, the tangata whenua, or first settlers of New Zealand. Definitely worth a visit if you are ever in Wellington. I left the museum early to catch up with ...
Been in New Zealand for a while...
After three lovely days in Los Angeles, I arrived in New Zealand on Jan 3rd. I met up with Paul and Jenny at the airport and then Shelley drove me down to Taumaranui, where I have been at Sutrayana Seminary for the last 2 weeks. Last night I went into ...
Hinterland
After staying in the lodge we went to Blue Duck Lodge, a lodge in the middle of nowhere with bushes, rivers, farms and nature pure. The weather was bad again so we only did a little walk, normally you can do jetboating, horse trekking and a 4W drive. ...
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