Turangi, New Zealand Travel Blogs

The Tongariro Debacle
Dec 11, 2005 (24 photos)

... 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...
Dec 13, 2003 (5 photos)

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 ...

TROGDOR and Jawad hit the road
Oct 25, 2005 (5 photos)

... 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 Falls ...

Bubbling Away...
Jan 30, 2005 (7 photos)

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 ...

Auckland & Rotorua to Turangi - Day 253
Nov 1, 2008 (21 photos)

... 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 geological ...

Tongariro II - Love is a Volcano
Aug 11, 2003 (9 photos)

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 Island. ...

Tongariro Crossing
Oct 25, 2005 (30 photos)

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 ...

Wierd Little Town
Apr 15, 2006

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 ...

Hvae it Yuor Way
Oct 23, 2005 (1 photos)

Mountains and Volcanes
Apr 27, 2005 (5 photos)

... 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 ...

Crossing Tongiriro Makes it Angry
Nov 20, 2005 (8 photos)

... 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 you' ...

Walkies and a dip
Jun 8, 2006

Blurb & Video to follow, when we return to Blighty and proper broadband!

coolest thing ever
Jun 17, 2006

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 National Park
Jul 22, 2005 (4 photos)

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'!
Dec 2, 2007 (5 photos)

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 was ...

On the Road
Jan 28, 2008 (9 photos)

... 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 day!

Tongariro Etc
Jan 5, 2008 (11 photos)

... .  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 Hawaii. 

The Tongariro Crossing!
Apr 21, 2007 (3 photos)

... 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 ...

TURANGI - PLEASANTLY SURPRISED
May 27, 2009 (28 photos)

... heading to a small town called Turangi on the southern shore of huge Lake Taupo.  The half day drive from Levin to Turangi was very scenicly diverse - flat fertile farm land, intense hills and rivers, the loan desert in NZ (Rangipo), and finally the ...

Turangi - The Trout Fishing Capital of the World
Mar 16, 2007

... biking around here, but no such luck. I now sort of regret being all smug about the hot weather when I arrived here. Turangi is officially the trout fishing capital of the world. But besides trout fishing, there isn't actually anything else to do here. ...

Wanted: Tana Umaga for the GBH of Brian O'Driscoll
Jun 30, 2005

... km to the little town of Turangi which was nearer to the beginning of the Tongariro Crossing, arguably the 'best one day hike in New Zealand' according to all the guide books and pamphlets. This was one of the things that i wanted to do before i reached NZ ...

Walking in Mordor
Jun 9, 2006 (19 photos)

... the setting for Mordor in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. The park itself is unlike anything else we have seen in New Zealand... very desolate. A series of volcanoes shape the skyline, each one very different, but all very magnificent. The first thing ...

National Park to Turangi
Apr 9, 2005 (1 photos)

... the lookout just past the summit made it worthwhile though. You can look down and see the huge Lake Taupo infront of you, it goes right off into the distance. Then a fantastic downhill to Turangi. Rained all afternoon so was boring and stayed indoors!

Tongariro Crossing
Apr 2, 2006 (2 photos)

At 7am we caught a bus from our campsite to Mangatepopo Road. From there we began our walk up between two volcanoes, Mt Tongariro and Mt Ngauruhoe (Mt Doom in The Lord of the Rings). It was a pretty steep climb, but the views were amazing. On the top of ...

Crazy Weekend...in more than one way....
Jul 25, 2006 (39 photos)

... dinner at a place where we were allowed to bring in our own beer, so that was entertaining! Then we watch the Black and Tans, New Zealand's Rugby game, went home and crashed! I was soooo tired. The next day we got up to go skiing again but the weather ...

Tongariro Crossing
Apr 12, 2006 (3 photos)

This track is supposed to be one of the best one day hikes in nz. you cross (and climb) some volcanos and enjoy an amazing scenery. although the night before turned out to be longer than expected i took of the next morning at 6:30 to take a bus 30 km ...

Rotorua, Taupo, Turangi, Tongariro crossing
Mar 10, 2007 (28 photos)

... .. les camions que t arrive pas a depasse.. en fin bref tout ca pour revenir a mon sejour dans les environs de Turangi, Rotorua.. mais avant notre journee a Rotorua.. shopping pour Roger.. en vue du trekking.. ensuite on a flaner en ville, internet.. ...

Turangi et les sources d eau chaude
Dec 6, 2008

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White water rafting
Oct 14, 2006 (6 photos)

... everything and pay so much $$ for a half day- but there was a race that afternoon and everyone was really excited for it- typical New Zealand- the race was to ski/snowboard to the bottom, hop on your bike and ride down the mountain, then run to the local ...

Rotarua, Maoris, thermal village
Jan 4, 2007 (5 photos)

... I said I wasn't feeling too well but to be honest I had little interest in seeing it. Since we've come to New Zealand I think qwe've all realised that we have all got different priorities. Fintan is obssessed with geo thermal and geological activity, Steve ...