Taupo Motels - Reviews and Rates

13 Mar 2009 Today I started traveling again but just a short getaway for 5 days. 1 of the uncle from the orchard I am working in will be traveling with me. We rented a car for 45NZD per day. We prepare all our stuff and left for lake taupo as soon as the car was delivered to our doorstep. I loaded my NZ map onto his GPS and it is real easy, ever...

One of the main reasons for going on this trip - despite just wanting to get away - was to give Silla the chance to do a Bungy jump. What better time to do this than on the morning of the new year!?!?! We turned up early and then had to go get a coffee due to the Taupo Bungy centre not being open. That done, we came back and did the jump. Silla ...

On our way to Taupo we heard on the radio that the New Zealand International Iron Man event was on today, so expect delays. We arrived in town to see loads of men and women on bikes or running. The iron man even starts with a 3.9km swim in the lake, a 179km cycle ride followed by a 42.5km run, a full marathon. The event was really well organised...

Plui lontan di cusi e je dome le lune. Dopo 2 dis di viaz, o rivi a Hamilton, Gnove Zelande. Mi ven a cjoli Devid Cudicio di Torean di Cividat. Insieme o nin a cjata Doro Zanini di Udin, che al vif a Taupo. Doro al pase 6 mes in Gnoze Zelande e 6 mes in Friul. Le so pasion cumo che ale in pension e je che dal pescja. Al partis tal scur a cinc di...

Our first stop after the Northlands was the Coromandel peninsula, which was pretty boring really, cute town and beautiful scenery on the drive but not much to report. This was however when we started to realise just how 'local' New Zealand is, the whole country is at least twice as big as the UK yet there are only 4.2million people who live here...

Leisurely morning and then we drove from Turangi to Taupo. The must-do here was definitely "Craters of the Moon" and "Huka Falls." Craters geothermal area with the steamy mist and bubbling mud pools coming up from the Earth made me wish I'd paid more attention in science class. It was totally fascinating! The sulphur clouds billow up from the de...

The next day, we left Rotorua and headed south to Turangi via Wai-O-Tapu (the Thermal Wonderland), Lake Taupo and the Huka Falls. We arrived at Wai-O-Tapu in time to catch the 'encouraged' eruption of the Lady Knox Geyser (encouraged by a chap dumping a load of soap powder down it to reduce surface tension, then confidently explaining what was g...

Today I jumped out of a plane at 15,000 feet. This has to be one of the coolest and scariest things I have done in my life! I did a tandem jump with expert skydiver Josh. I say expert: although having completed thousands of jumps, I was only Josh's 31st tandem client. Most of the other skydivers had completed over 10,000 tandem jumps! We were cr...

We arrived lateish from Waitomo so only 4 people got to do the sky dive today but the rest will hopefully - it's always difficult to predict the weather here, and obviously for safety reasons you can only jump in certain conditions. Me and Helen from the bus are the only 2 out of about 24 of us not jumping - I'm actually quite surprised how many...

Over the past 6 weeks we have been spoilt rotten at family and friend´s homes. It feels a little strange to realise that John and I are now travelling alone. We pick up a Japanese hire car and plenty of inspiration from Jawad, and head off for a couple of days touring around the north island of New Zealand. The drive seems to take forever down f...