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National Park Village Slideshow
Travel Blogs from National Park Village, New Zealand
Snowboard, neve e mais snowboard!
... o maior nevăo dos últimos 50 anos há umas semanas. Deixou, como sempre. uma bela paisagem, com bastante neve aqui em baixo em National Park (onde vivo), e, em 3 dias, largou mais de 1 metro de neve fresca nas skiareas, o que é mesmo óptimo! O país ...
Black Water Rafting
... , during the rafting we met a girl called carol from Copthorne who spent time living in Horley! Small world or what! We arrived at National Park, this place was a stop for people wanting to do the big Tongariro walk, we didn’t so it was justa stop ...
Tak nám napad snížek!
Včera mi volal Terry, že prej se ruší víkend rybaření na lodi. Smutný, no. Ale co, vyjde to příště, ne? Briskně jsem tedy otevřel ten intrnít a mrknul jak to vypadá se sněhem... a prej ...
Tongariro National Park
... Alpine crossing and it was sooo ridiculously amazing. I will get into that later.... The last 3 day I have spent in Tongariro National Park waiting for good weather to do one of the worlds best day hikes.. The Tongariro Alpine Crossing. We arrive on ...
yes I'm still alive
... staffies (staff quarters). Ashley, a scottish girl at the hostel, let me borrow her car to get all my stuff up there to Whakapapa village (oh btw, the "wh" is pronounce like "f" here, so yeah...it's a pretty cool name). Driving on the left was very very ...
Jezioro Taupo
Jedziemy w kierunku jeziora Taupo. Pogoda na polnocnej wyspie nie wiele lepsza, co prawda cieplej ale pada. Na noc zatrzymujemy sie w schronisku, kolo parku narodowego Tongariro. Rano docieramy do wulkanu, ale niestety jest pochmurnie i wietrznie, ...
De Tongariri-crossing
Zondag 20 maart 2011 Plaats: national park village Klimaat: 20' maar hele dag miezerige regen De Tongariro-crossing! Jullie vragen je vast af wat nu precies kan zijn.....keep your shorts on, ik ga jullie dat nu vertellen: De Tongariro-crossing is ...
Tongariro Natl. Park
3Tage, 4 Nachte , 50km, volles Gepack... Tongariro Northern Circuit Umrundung eines aktiven Vulkans....der ...
North Island Day 12: Glutton For Bloody Punishment
... shave a good few minutes off it as those times are generous and probably relate to the eldery or otherwise slower than me. In New Zealand you can assume that the estimated time given only applies to you if in fact you hail from the planet Krypton and ...
On the way to Mordor
... it takes at least 7 hours hiking, and it gets dark in 3-4 hours (and we are still a long way ). We go to Whakapapa Village for some short trails before going to our lodge: Silica Rapids and Takakura Falls. Up the end of the first trail, the wind is very ...
Mt Doom e Rugby
... uma foto muito patriótica para mostrar ŕ família lá em casa haha. E foram entăo estas as aventuras. Estou no último dia em National Park, onde vivo há 3 meses, amanhă volto a Wellington, para novo jogo de Rugby, e depois sigo para a ilha do Sul. ...
Tongariro National Park
... operator so we could gear up if needed and then got a lift down to the start of the trail. The park was New Zealand's first national park and is a world heritage area. Tongariro national park was created in 1887 when Te Heuheu Tukino the fourth ...
Tongariro Alpine Crossing
... denne dag, bookede vi os dagen i forvejen paa en shuttlebus, der skulle bringe og hente os i en af NZ's mange nationalparker: Tonagriro National Park. Og vejrguderne var i den grad gode ved os denne morgen:) Vi stod op kl. 6.15 (denne gang i go' tid) ...
day 138: short walks
... jacuzzy. Of course I was at the bus stop much too early and had to wait for quite a while, but eventually the bus came and brought me to the National Park Village where I met up with Sophie again. I was soaked. On my way here, it had started to rain ...
day 139: tongoria alpine crossing
... , which for knees and legs turns out to be worse than the Devil's Staircase. Finally we reach the hut, the last stop before the car park where our busses will leave at 3pm and at 4.30pm. It's 2.49 and the sign indicates that it would take us 1.5 hours. We ...
SKIING IN AUGUST!
Hello y'all A quick one as got to be on the bus heading to Wellington in 15 mins.... just to say New Zealand is BRILLIANT and I really wish I had longer here. It's just great - amazing scenery, fresh air, snow, sun, mountains, beaches... it has it all! ...
2nd day mountain biking
Today Rob, kelvin and I cycled another track, Fishers Track - this is a 26K ride & took us 3 hours - my ass hurt from yesterday so after this bike ride, sitting down was a little bit painful - but the ride was worth it! The views were just amazing, ...
Tongariro National Park
... to say, the highlight of the mountain is Tongariro Crossing, 17 km and 6-8 hour hiking trail. I stayed in the Tongariro National Park Village and tried it alone. The national park is designated as a World Heritage Site, so I expected great views in the ...
heading to Arrowtown
... come to slow vehicle bay. It all worked out well. we stopped for lunch at lake Dunstan Old Cromwell Town is some buildings saved from the village now flooded by the lake. The Autunm trees put on a great show as we had a look at this place. we didn't go ...
Day 13, North Island, New Zealand
... , but not quite so intense as we have just had. Left Taupo and headed south along the side of the lake towards Tongariro National Park, an area dominated by 3 huge volcanoes. Passed through well spaced out small towns that we would refer to as hamlets ...
No one day crossing
Saw the Gallery again from just after midday and then nearly at 6pm after a bit of shopping and late lunch, got on the road for Tongariro, with a view to doing the crossing the next ...
Tongariro
... of internet so I don't get on much here. I made it down to The Crossing Backpackers in Erua which is inside Tongariro National Park. This place is a big snowboarding hangout which isn't really for me. The people are really cool though. The work is simply ...
14 Mar......
14 Mar 09 We woke up at 6am in the morning for breakfast and find there were already a few early birds in the kitchen. I took quite a heavy one today, with a packet of instant noodle, 2 hard boiled egg, 3 cream bun that is ...
Mount Doom, no, rain and a car accident instead
... finding Tom and leaving. I then drove heading north for several hours on the way to meet up with the Pollards in National Park village. This was a pretty long drive through less than spectacular dry country. We stopped for a drink in a city called ...
Skiing!
... pub to watch the rugby game. It was the All Blacks (NZ) vs. South Africa. It's crazy how people love rugby here. It's like New Zealand's only sport that they can kind of call their own. We didn't stay up much later than the game, we were all pretty ...
Sick
Fever got me later as i guess i went beyond my physical limits but i used my mom's recipe of 5 blankets, 1 aspirin and lots of water and fought it during the evening! Still, spent whole day in bed with high ...
Koffie, kroegen & klauterpartijen
... dag moesten we helaas heel vroeg opstaan en namen de bus naar National Park. National park is een dorp dichtbij Tongariro National Park. We kwamen daar om de Tongariro Alpine crossing te lopen maar helaas was het laatste deel van de track afgesloten door ...
Tangario
After getting the car fixed in Taupo we continue south to this 2nd in the world National Park. It has lots of tall snowy volcanos and two ski areas still busy with spring skiing. We hiked about 11 km yesterday in the a grey fog up to Lake Tama. This lake ...
