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Travel Blogs from Turangi, New Zealand
Auckland & Rotorua to Turangi - Day 253
This is a top pick! ... tower, the biggest structure in the southern hemisphere. Then hit the road again and drove south towards Rotorua. Rotorua is New Zealand's most popular tourist town with an unbelievable 3 million visitors a year. Visitor's flock here to see the ...
Bubbling Away...
This is a top pick! Sunday 30th January 205 Drive to Rotorua today - pass some more pretty bays (New Zealand is full of beautiful scenery, everywhere you go). My guidebook was not joking - you really can smell the city before you arrive - it smells of rotten eggs, due to ...
TROGDOR and Jawad hit the road
This is a top pick! ... to Auckland and I headed south to Turangi. The drive was perfect: beautiful scenery, an open road, my latest CD compilation playing. New Zealand is without doubt my favourite country to drive in. As I headed into Taupo I took the turn off for Huka ...
The Tongariro Debacle
This is a top pick! ... museum was free, and actually really interesting. They had large exhibits dedicated to Maori culture, and today only, had the New Zealand forensic team in teaching people about fingerprint tracing and DNA reading -- a real life CSI. Very cool.) Tomorrow ...
Turangi - A Gentle Stroll...
This is a top pick! Feeling extremely tired after the escapade with the annoying brats the night before, we slowly made our way northwards to Turangi, on the southern edge of Lake Taupo. It took us just over four hours to reach the tiny town, and I was certainly glad when ...
Tongariro II - Love is a Volcano
This is a top pick! Greetings from the land of the "long white cloud", Maori name for New Zealand - and unfortunaltely quite appropriate. It's been a cold week or so since we've been here but despite the sometime cloudy, rainy weather we've been enjoying the North ...
Two types of cave and an Angoran shave
This is a top pick! ... long ago Sharks was asking to lend some money off me to buy some Angoran Rabbits, or was that just a way to buy a farm in New Zealand?) Anyway, that one is for you Mike. We had our pictures taken with the little cute things, they were so soft ...
Tongariro Crossing
This is a top pick! It has been a while since I have slept in a dorm room, and compounded with going to bed unusually early I just could not get to sleep last night. The German guy in the room kept laughing in his sleep, and both he and the Austrian occasionally mumbled a ...
Mountains and Volcanes
This is a top pick! ... and made the 1996 ski season for the area a write-off. The Lord of the Rings was filmed in various locations in New Zealand, including Tongariro. There's guidebooks you can buy here re: the filming of the trilogy in the country and young Tolkien fans ...
Wierd Little Town
This is a top pick! Our bus arrived in Turangi at about 1.30am . We had arranged with the hostel for them to leave the keys for our room in the phone box ouside the reception. After we finally found the hostel in the dark unlit streets we made our way to the phone box as ...
Lady and the (Alpine) Tramp
This is a top pick! ... covering, World Heritage listed, Tongariro National Park. This 19km tramp is considered the best day walk in the whole of New Zealand (and one of the best in the world) and hikes across active volcano craters , lush vegetation, and past beautiful ...
Crossing Tongiriro Makes it Angry
This is a top pick! ... just astounded and just asked me to say hello to her mum when I'm there, errrr ok! As I said the Tongariro Crossing is billed as New Zealand's best one day walk. I can confirm that it's probably the best one day walk I've ever done, it was amazing. If ...
Walkies and a dip
This is a top pick! Blurb & Video to follow, when we return to Blighty and proper ...
Land Of A Thousand Rainbows
This is a top pick! ... fireplace or marvel at the array of rainbows that those conditions inevitably produce. There's no much to the town of Turangi but it's a homely base for visiting the geothermal region and for doing the Tongariro Alpine Crossing. And that's exactly what ...
Geothermal Wonderland
This is a top pick! The geothermal hot springs region was so amazing to see. We'd never seen anything quite like it before. Yes, there's a whole region with it's own highway. It seethes with steam visible from the road, bubbling cauldron-like mud-pools and gurgling old ...
Freeze On!
This is a top pick! I forgot my flip-flops in Auckland, a result of walking around barefoot most of the weekend. So when we stopped for P&P - petrol and pee - I rushed into the wet-floored loo without thinking. Doh! I'm sure it was just water, it had to be! ...
coolest thing ever
The first thing we have done on our adventure tour was the coolest thing I have ever done in my life. It's called Black Water Rafting because it is in caves underground so it's dark. We went in groups of 8 or so and we picked the earliest time slot which ...
Tongariro Apline Crossing
... niestety z ladnych widoczkow byly nici :(. Po dojsciu na druga strone i zejsciu do podnoza gory zlapalismy stopa z powrotem do Turangi, gdzie Laura zrobila nam samkowity obiad. Pozniej obejrzelismy sobie Lord of the Ring 3, ktory byl krecony w okolicy ...
Tongariro National Park
Today we Left Lake Taupo and headed for the Tongariro National park but before we got there we stopped of at this great vantage point where we had the most amazing Kodak moment of Lake Taupo the weather was amazing and the view was just sublime. After ...
Visit to 'Mordor'!
One of our most anticipated days in NZ - the Tongariro Crossing which is approx 6 hour walk past volcanic sites including Mount Doom and various other Lord of the Rings locations (although that wasn't the main reason that we went, honest!) The walk ...
On the Road
... that was twisty & turning like the Cabot Trail only the water we saw was Lake Taupo....just beautiful. Stoppped for the night in Turangi everything seems closed except for the groceries...so had a picnic dinner outside our cabin....Great ...
Hiking the Tongariro Alpine Crossing
... is rich in Maori history and has dramatic scenery and unique land forms including several volcanoes. This was our first proper trek in New Zealand, we were supposed to have done several by now but had always been unable to do so because of the weather. ...
Around the Tongariro Area
... many people are around. We grab some food from the cafe and check out the ski shop. It's supposedly the biggest ski area in New Zealand, but it pales in comparison to anything in Colorado's main areas. Back at the hostel, I make two trips to the fish and ...
Tongariro Etc
... . We made some friends there, including a little Beagle named Boston. Day 2 in Turangi, we rafted the Tongariro River with our guide Garth. New Zealand is an outdoor paradise - it's like a combination of Oregon and ...
Tongariro Alpine Crossing
This crossing is widely regarded as the best one-day tramp in New Zealand, and has become increasingly popular over the last few years as it was heavily used in the Lord of the Rings films. Not having seen them, I didn’t recognise anything. With the ...
trekking up mount doom!
while staying in the tiny town of turangi, we trekked across the landscape of mount doom as made famous by the lotr films and soothed our aching bones in the free hot baths. aaaaahhhhh! ...
The Tongariro Crossing!
... complete The New Zealand initiation rite - The Tongariro Crossing. An 8 hour, 'some-say-gruelling' walk through some of New Zealand's finest and most spectacular sights... towering above you at all times is the awe-inspiring, spine tingling Mt Ngaraheau ...
The World Famous Tongariro crossing..or maybe not!
The whole day yesterday when they had the chance our guides were telling us how fantastic the Tongariro crossing was and that it is ranked as one of the top 10 walks in the world. I didn't know anything about it at all and in fact had never heard ...