Travel Blog Photos from Tongario National Park (13)
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![]() | Tongario National Park, New Zealand |
Near the center of New Zealand's North Island, three massive volcanoes steam and smoke away in a huge national park that was gifted to the nation by Maori chiefs, the first land grant of its kind by an indigenous people. The high alpine plains ...
... for its unpredictable weather, only few days a year does it have warm sunny weather like today. The Tongario Natioanl Park is the oldest in New Zealand and one of the earliest UNESCO World Heritage sites. Of all the good hiking tracks in New Zealand, ...
Here is where all the big Volcano action is in NZ. We did a big one day walk on a still active (but don't worry, dormant) volcano. It was like walking on the moon (except for the stink of sulphur).
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