Baycrest Lodge

... in the earth's crust. We then headed down to Taupo to stay at our 2nd destination of the holiday. We stayed at Baycrest Lodge, which was a really nice apartment, with a hot tub outside just for our private use. Ground floor apartments all have these, ...

Up early at the Baycrest Inn in Taupo as is our habit and off to an early breakfast. Across the street, Debi sat in front of Mounts Ruapehu, Ngauruoe and Tongariro still covered in snow. We had driven past Huka Falls on the way in last night and decided ...

Now in Taupo.  This  is NZ largest freshwater lake and town is nicely situated right at the shoreline.  Was very rainy and dreary last night, but rented a DVD and stayed inside.  Apartment is very nice, and has in-floor heating from ...

Today was a day of travel...we left Russell at 7:30 this morning and arrived in Taupo about 5:30pm...so a long day in the car.  Our original plan was to go to Rotorua and spend several days exploring the geysers and volcanoes but, and I hope this ...