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Turangi Slideshow
Turangi
Travel Blogs from Turangi, New Zealand
Tongariro Crossing
(see below for english) Beim 3. Versuch das Tongariro Crossing zu machen hat es endlich geklappt! Denn die ersten beiden Male, wurde es aufgrund des schlechten Wetters abgesagt. Nur leider konnte Vivienne nicht mitwandern, da sie einen Tag vorher nach ...
Thank you very much Queenie!!
... was pretty surreal, and Lou was glad James was driving!!! The extra hour in traffic in Auckland meant we arrived in Turangi at about 10pm, 5 hours after our departure!!!! We had stopped for food on the way, so were looking forward to crashing ...
On the Alpine Circuit
Today it was time to trek, so we headed off to the mythical Mount Doom from Lord of the Rings. The Alpine Circuit is everything it's said to be: alpine heather, mountain daisies, and deep, dark forests with waterfalls led us through the kilometers to ...
It's raining again, oh no (Tongariro Crossing II)
... -peaked facets of its much older neighbours. These and many lesser summits are to be found in Tongariro National Park, New Zealand’s first (1887) national park and a deserved dual world heritage site. Ngauruhoe is principally composed of andesite ...
Turangi - New Zealand
... to Turangi, near Lake Taupo, and spent the afternoon walking along the river bank watching fishermen fishing for trout. Turangi, another one of New Zealands small towns, only has a population of 3,900, is the proclaimed capitol for fishing. The rivers ...
River Valley
... , there was six in a boat it was me,si,tom,dave,jo&tash it was amazing one of the best things we had done in new zealand we was going down grade 5 rapids which are the biggest you can do as a beginner!!! Got a bruised face as the instructor bashed me ...
Rainbows!!! They are beautiful jumpers
Got my first chance to go trout fishing today in about 90 feet of water. Thank goodness I had a boat! Ha. I have to say the captain was great...we were only out not even 2 hours and we hooked into 4 nice ones. We trolled along ...
Agony
Am putting the pics up first and will comment later x Right I will start from the start. We got picked up from Base Taupo hostel at 5.40am!! Sooo tired. Had an hour bus journey to the Tongariro crossing. Once we got there we waited around for our friend ...
Tongariro Alpin Crossing
... fatt prata om nagot sarkillt intellektuellt pa ett par dagar, det hjalper ocksa for ens skrivlust. Men denna blogg hamnade under Turangi av den anledningen att jag tankte lagga upp lite bilder fran det som dem kallar Nya Zealands basta endagstur och som ...
Day 5. Wednesday. Hamilton to Motutere.
... (so cool!), taking about 1000 photos between us. I’m glad we chose this park; it really made me feel like we were in New Zealand…doing something that you would never get to do at home. Our campsite for the night is still 60km away, so at ...
March 22, 2012
... to be gorgeous and definitely the best weather I have had since I got to NZ. The drive from Taupo to our camp in Turangi along the shore of the lake with the sun shining was very peaceful. Unfortunately we found out that the Tongariro Alpine Crossing is ...
Turangi: Tongariro Crossing
... myself & at the same time guide her down. Also bearing in mind that we have a bus to catch (the last bus back to Turangi will leave at 4.30pm). However, I was more concerned of leading her down safely. Guess it's the only way that could get her to ...
Tongariro - volcano and river
Our next stop was Turangi, a good base for 2 big priorities in our NZ trip - the Tongariro crossing (walk across volcanoes) and white water rafting. I had built a couple of days slack into the schedule because last time I did the crossing IŽd had to wait ...
Back to NZ and Turangi
... . He then mentioned a couple of parcels that Helen had received whilst we had been away. Originally we where meant to be in New Zealand for Helen's birhtday but unfortunatly we had to go to Tonga instead. However, this did mean that, unbeknown to Helen, ...
Backpacker SLASH hitchhiker
... and Lara in Taupo this morning for whitewater rafting but luckily managed to get a message from them that they were in Turangi too and I wondered how I might find them. I made a joke to Jamie that I should go into the tourist information centre and ...
Tongariro Crossing - Really an AWESOME Hike!
... , as this part of the track was in fact climbing up the volcano. The views from above were brilliant, sun and clouds generating new views almost every second. After a longer break I walked, or better slipped down from the Red Crater to the Emerald Lakes, ...
Third time lucky.....
... out that the first two attempts were due to us being big girls blouses and running scared from the weather reports, but finally New Zealand’s equivalent of Michael Fish came up with a fine day, so we no longer had any excuses. The Tongariro ...
A Patient Wait at Whakapapa Village
... me himself w/ his Subaru wagon. He's a nice guy and we had a good chat about cars, tramping, and NZ on the way back to Turangi. I am back at Extreme Backpackers and it's nice to sleep indoors in a warm bed. :) I laid out my tent and sleeping bag to dry ...
The Tongariro Crossing... OR K vs the volcano!!
... out around 9pm, exhaustion prevailed after the greatest walk i've ever taken! the next morning I enjoyed the serenity of Turangi again, went online for an hour, enjoyed a really nice mochachino at a little coffee shop while reading my book, ...