Taupo Resorts - Reviews and Rates

I just want to say for the record that the guide spent more time with Joe than me and that's why he caught way more fish than me. Well maybe he just caught one more than me but then that was the only fish caught so that's way more (whatever).

Now with that out of the way;

The Huka Lodge is one of those places in the world where the...

We had a day off from the bus today. We hired bikes from the hostel and cycled to Acacia Bay. Here we had a snack and then cycled back. All-in-all it took us about 3.5hrs. We had a big lunch at the Pub 'n' Grub then we went on the Barbary, a sailing ship once owned by Errol Flynn. We sailed to the Maori rock carvings, carved 30years ago, Neil we...

Our days in Taupo were amazing. We started off this day by taking an hour walk at Craters of the Moon. It was a geothermal site and was so peaceful. Well worth the walk and trip over. We then did the Huka Falls jetboat ride which was incredible. You race at 50-60 miles per hour in a jet boat doing 360 spins as you go. We then slowed down to view...

After a long long sleep, we woke up in the middle of sunny Taupo afternoon. We figured we'd better see some of the sights and piled into the car to take a look at the nearby Huka falls. Very impressive. Long canyon filled with raging water, big waterfall at the end. We took a wander up over the back of the falls through some lovely forest. It's ...

We got up early as the waiotapu (meaning 'sacred waters') thermal wonderland is approx 30km away and Lady Knox geyser erupts at 10.15 which we want to see. We wondered how they know when it is going to erupt and Dean says they will put something in it. I told him, don't be silly - it's supposed to be perfectly natural, we will see. When we packe...

Stopped at Wai-O-Tapu, thermal wonderland. Then to Taupo, a beautiful town by the lake.

My goodness, today I jumped out of a plane at 12,000ft. It was pretty intense, to say the least. I booked a 11:40 jump at 10, so I only had an hour to freak out. It was all internal though, cause everyone was sleeping when I went back to the room. hah. So I got picked up at 11:30, but didn't jump until shortly after 1. Had the kick ass jump suit...

After a nice little ride to Taupo where we first visited some of the world's clearest waterfalls called Huka Falls we went on a scenic flight over the volcanic area around there. Originally we planned on doing the volcano crossing, but as the weather forecast was really bad for the next day we decided to check it out from the air, which was abso...

At 2 pm, got dressed in lovely red overalls + harness, and headed up to go for a sky dive with tandem jumper Jason. The driver washed the Kiwi bus, as we left it for good. the flight up was good, the first 2 secs of the jump were scary+++++ as we were falling backwards. The free fall involved me just screaming. But when the parachute opened at 5...

Next stop Kiwiland. Now I know after the 'Lord of the Rings' films everyone is raving about this place, and it is THE country to travel right now, but I haven't been actively looking forward to it. There is always so much to enjoy in the present moment to be looking toward too much to the next stop. Also, I don't like knowing too much about what...