On the third day of my vacation I was on my way to New Zealand. We landed in Auckland and then we made our way down to Taupo. Taupo is NZ's largest lake; but really it is just a hugh crater filled with water. This area is still active- how dangerous and how exiting :)))
We stayed in The Oraki Village just on the edge of the lake (check out the view form our trace on photos below). This whole region of NZ has plenty activities to offer we chose a Riverjet Thermal Safari on Waikato River-a magnificent relaxing ride on the river, then a walk aroundOrakei Korako. Orakei is a Thermal Reserve where you can see boiling pools of mud & water, geysers and silica terraces. Very interesting stuff. On the return journey, we experienced "the iconic abilities " of the famous Hanilton jet with " a adrenaline ride adventure". It was fun but in the end I was sure that we had done a few too many 360 turns because my stomach really bothered me. After that, we needed to realax in the gorgeous scenery of the Huka Falls.
Yeah New Year!!! Hopefully it will be the best year ever. We were so exhausted by the last day that we decided to celebrate appearing 2009 the next day. The champagne was great!
The weather that day complicated our plans- It was raining for most of the day and we could not do Tongoriro Alpine Crossing hiking. It was quite disappointing, but in the end the day did not finished badly. Thermal Walk with steamy hot mud pools dried out our tears :)))
We stayed in The Oraki Village just on the edge of the lake (check out the view form our trace on photos below). This whole region of NZ has plenty activities to offer we chose a Riverjet Thermal Safari on Waikato River-a magnificent relaxing ride on the river, then a walk aroundOrakei Korako. Orakei is a Thermal Reserve where you can see boiling pools of mud & water, geysers and silica terraces. Very interesting stuff. On the return journey, we experienced "the iconic abilities " of the famous Hanilton jet with " a adrenaline ride adventure". It was fun but in the end I was sure that we had done a few too many 360 turns because my stomach really bothered me. After that, we needed to realax in the gorgeous scenery of the Huka Falls.
Yeah New Year!!! Hopefully it will be the best year ever. We were so exhausted by the last day that we decided to celebrate appearing 2009 the next day. The champagne was great!
The weather that day complicated our plans- It was raining for most of the day and we could not do Tongoriro Alpine Crossing hiking. It was quite disappointing, but in the end the day did not finished badly. Thermal Walk with steamy hot mud pools dried out our tears :)))
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