Ashbrook Motel Taupo

9 Scannell Street Taupo, North Island, New Zealand

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Geysers and Bad Weather Forecast

A travel blog entry by stie_downunder

15

... I am happy about my position in the first row. Shortly after 10:15 a.m. a guard is coming, gives a short explanation about the Geyser and drops the washing powder into the hole of the Geyser. A few minutes later, white foam is coming out of the small crater, and another minute later the huge eruption takes place and the water fountain shots into the air for about 10 to 15 meters. Very spectacular. After this show ...

A quick stop over

A travel blog entry by irishandmonkey

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... 8211; I have included a photo of the explanation of its layout – id be here all night explaining it! We spent about 3 hours milling around and we even got a free hot dog, along with the free nibbles and wine :)

Somehow we managed to find another children's playground an play some more on the swings – this time it wasn't as easy to get up as we had heavy packs on!!! I couldn't actually get off the swing!
We watched sunset ...

Day 137: chris, smell, lake-view & doughnuts

A travel blog entry by ursburs

... outside a closed fitnessclub and I thought that something must have died in there. But later I noticed it in other parts of the town too: rotten eggs - sulfur... the smell of hell... and today I found its source: Just past the Saturday's market is a foggy park. Looking closer, I saw that it was not mist but steam pooring out of several rocky holes in the ground between bushes. They got fences around them. 'Thermal landscaping' they call it. And they did an excellent job. A ...

Sheep Shows and Electric Drumkits

A travel blog entry by jandl2010

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... Golf Simulator (!?) or even test you music skills on the futuristic electric drum kit (electric drum kit? Didn’t they come out in 1972?). Needless to say we gave Puzzle world the Sheep World a miss and opted for a visit to the Wairakei Terraces. The Wairakei’s are the Taupo area’s Maori tribe situated on terraced banks of thermal hot pools in the area. Going by our luck so far, we don’t hold out much hope for how good it’s going to ...

We regret nothiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing...

A travel blog entry by thegoodbeirnes

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... 8217;t visible due to cloud but we weren’t put off. We finally got to an accessible part of the base of Mount Doom and decided to walk up it as far as the snow line (everything above it was white washed with cloud). We left the track and started the tough walk up hill. Our route looked like an old lave flow area and was covered in loose rock that made the going pretty tough. At times it was one step forward, two backwards. It got pretty steep really ...

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