13-14.01
Leaving Rotorua, direction Taupo.
First we stopped at Te Puia Park in Rotorua. They have a weaving and wood sculpting school, keeping the Maori tradition alive, and the hot mud pool and geyser. We had a guided tour, lots of stories about Maori history, and a little treat cooked in one of the boiling pool ;)
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| Flax, used for weaving |
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| Let's cook some eggs :) |
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| Boiling mud pool |
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| Geysers |
Next, quick stopped at the Huka Falls before arriving in Taupo.
Taupo, nice lake, perfect for an OWS :)
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| Hole in one |
Next morning, up at 5.00am for The Tongariro Alpine Crossing , in Tongariro Nationnal Park. It’s a 19,4km hike and take around 6h30. It goes by Mt doom that you can go to the summit if you want. I didn’t do it and glad I didn’t because everybody said it was like hell and they all had some nice scratches on their legs…
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| Mont Ngauruhoe or better known as mount Doom |
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| red Crater |
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| Emerald Lakes |
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| And we are on the other side of the mountain and ready to go down |
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| Te Maari Crater |
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| If someone know what a lahar is, let me know... |
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| We made it :) |
Googled it... Scary!!!
ReplyDelete- Lahar is an Indonesian term that describes a hot or cold mixture of water and rock fragments flowing down the slopes of a volcano and (or) river valleys. When moving, a lahar looks like a mass of wet concrete that carries rock debris ranging in size from clay to boulders more than 10 m in diameter.