Whakapapa Village Hotels - Reviews and Rates

The Tongariro and Ngauruhoe are active volcanoes, so an ideal place to cross the mountains. When you take a guide, make sure he knows the surrounding or takes full bateries in his GPS..

For foden af et aktivt vulkanområde slog vi lejr for natten. De tre vulkantoppe (hvoraf den ene sidst havde været i gang for 2 år siden) lå alle inden for 10 km afstand. Næste dag gik vi en 6 km lang tur, hvor vi havde en rigtig god udsigt til alle toppene og kunne se resultatet af nogle af fortidens vulkaniske aktiviteter. Blandet med alt det v...

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Wellington is known in NZ for being very windy, and sure enough when we arrived we found very strong winds. We were still not sure we could extend our stay in NZ (we had about 1 week left), so we decided to head straight to the Tongariro National Park, since this was the southernmost place in North Island we were sure we wanted to visit. ...

Dissabte XIV - II - MMIX Seran les 8.30am quan esperarem el nostre guia al lloc acordat. Primerament ens dirigirem cap al sud, prop de Turoa, on es van enregistrar escenes de LOTR basicament Ithilien. El temps es fantastic, fa un dia assoleiat impressionant! Ens parem a diversos miradors... uau... com a anecdotes, hi ha una escena que van haver ...

We are now in the central volcanic region where they filmed Mt. Doom for Lord of the Rings. It's very desolate here and reminds us of Hawaii, but with different vegetation. We made a stop at the Whakapapa Village to ask about weather and hiking information. We got a suggestion to go up a ski gondola and do a hike around the rim of a volcano; thi...

Ode to a Lost Love As dawn arrived, my arm brushed against her breast, Electrifying memories drowned me, powerful as a tsunami crest, Our romance was magic, intense, overflowing with lust, But like a Shakespearean tragedy, our oneness was destined for dust, The sights, the sounds, full mountains topped with snowy lace, I look into my soul and gl...

Just to torture ourselves some more, we decided to hike a second day in the Tongariro National Park. The people at our hostel were really friendly, and suggested a route to us which was shorter, around 10 km, with landscape different than what we had seen the day before - the Whakapapaiti Track. Perfect! We flagged down a bus and asked them to t...

Christmas was getting closer and closer without u noticing it. We weren't really in a christmas mood, you don't get that feeling in the middle of the summer far away from your familywhen you're used to something else. We did have a reservation though at a hotel in Tongarir National Park where we were to spend the christmas days. But before comin...

We drove up to Whakapapa village and then beyond there to the Whakapapa ski field which was a major location for the Lord of the Rings movie, namely Mordor and Mount Doom. As we hadn't seen Mt Ruapehu without snow cover before it became really apparent that we were smack in the middle of Mordor when we arrived at the ski field this time. Really ...

28/08/08 Early start ready for our walk to Taranaki Falls and back, there was so much snow that all the other walks were closed off including the infamous Tongariro Crossing. There were spectacular views of Mt Ruapehu, Mt Tongariro and Mt Ngauruhoe. For lunch we drove up to the top of the mountains where everyone was ski-ing!(very jealous) For t...