Taupo Lodges - Reviews and Rates

Normally, Rotorua to Taupo would be a very short trip. But we went by way of Waitomo, which is a bit out of the way, to say the least. Waitomo is really in the middle of nowhere, but it's home to the world famous glowworm caves.

You can, if you want, do a "dry" tour, where you walk into the caves, see the worms, and have a guide tell you ...

Well it's been a while since I updated. Last time we were on the south Island working our way back north again. On the way up we stayed at a small beachtown called Kaikoura where 5 of us entered a pub quiz. We came second and won a cocktail in a teapot. Pretty good considering there were only 3 teams. Then it was straight on up to the north Isla...

Taupo lies by Lake Taupo, which is the biggest lake in NZ ( and according to my German skydiving tandem, the biggest in the southern hemisphere. Although he told me this during my fall down from the aircraft, I had time to have some doubts...) Here I hiked the famous Tongariro crossing, NZ's best day hike they say. It is 20+ km long and had some...

We catch the bus to Taupo which stops at a couple of places along the way - one to stop on the Desert road to quickly snap pictures of the snow capped volcanoe in the middle of the 'desert' where nothing grows because of the gases given off from the volcanoe. We continue driving and get a lovely view along Lake Taupo before we arrive in town whe...

After visiting the Wai-O-Tapu Thermal Wonderland we headed off south to Lake Taupo. We visited the Aratiatia Dam which holds back the huge Waikato river above the Aratiatia rapids. They release the river four times a day for half an hour so when we arrived the dam was open and just about to close so we saw the rapids and then watched them disapp...

After our shaky start in Auckland, we boarded our Kiwi Experience bus set for the north. We went up to the Bay of Islands, which is almost the most northern tip of New Zealand. Here, wer enjoyed a little bit of sun (finally) and went on a boat trip. Unexpectedly, we managed to spot some dolphins and obviously the paparazzi was out in full force ...

Okay so this was the big one!!! Jumping 15,000ft out of an airplane with a South African strapped to your back who you hope isn't on a suicide mission!!You fall at 200kms an hour for 60 seconds and then hopefully the chute opens and you glide on down. We're at Lake Taupo where they do 30,000 jumps a year, gotta be okay. The minute we arrive at L...

Dear Frodo, Today, I travelled to Mt. Doom to re-live our journey to destroy the ring. The trip (Tongariro Crossing) was 17km long and the scenery was rocky and dessert like. I started the hike at 8 in the morning and travelled on a pleasant path. The ascent was rocky and slippery, but the views were amazing. Mt. Doom looked cone like and had st...

well, since i last wrote, i've picked up and left wellington, took a morning bus to National Park town, which took a good chunk of the day (got in around 3pm). set up a tent at the SKI HAUS resort, a nice cozy backpackers place. Ron and I chilled for the rest of the afternoon (the israeli guy i met on the overnite bus en route to wellington- we'...

I've been working for an entire month now at TTS, and I realized that haven't really described what it's like working there. To be completely honest, the thrill has worn off a bit. It's coming to the end of the season here, and so a lot of the skydivers have lost their enthusiasm. I suppose anything anyone does day in and day out gets a bit bori...