Well today we had quite the adventure! We hiked the Tongariro Alpine Crossing. It was 19.4km between two volcanoes in the central part of the North Island. The one volano starred as Mount Doom in the Lord of the Rings! Overall it was an amazing walk with spectacular scenery but unfotunately we did miss some pretty amazing stuff in the middle of it 'cause the weather went from nice and sunny to pretty crazy winds very quickly and our views got obliterated. There are these amazing emerald coloured crater lakes along the track by we didn't get the best view of them 'cause we were in the clouds. It was good that we went today though because I think the next several days will be rain all day. We got some amazing views of Mount Doom (it does have another name but I forget it). We are still deciding whether we will stay here one more day or head to Napier (wine region) tomorrow. We have a ferry booked to the south island the day after tomorrow. We are pretty wiped tonight and have been eating pretty simple stuff but we went to the grocery store and got some nice bread and cheeses and had a nice snack after the walk and now I am enjoying some Pinot Noir...lovely! Dan is going to fry up some kind of meat tonight (ugg...ha ha) and I plan to have bruchetta.
Love you all!
Hanna and Dan
19kilometres, I would be dead. It is snow storm in North Bay now.
ReplyDeleteI am keeping an eye on you.. Great idea with this blog! We had a little snowstorm yesterday.. Today is fine driving again!!
ReplyDeleteI chatted with Peter this morning!!
Love Lillemor
Sounds like your trip has gotten off to a great start! I worked for a bit right near there at Mt Ruapehu...during the winter though. I had an excellent view of Mt Ngauruhoe (aka Mt Doom) from my bedroom window.
ReplyDeleteIt's so fun to read your updates and relive what it's like. You're in for such a fantastic time! Have fun Cheesipoo.
say hi to aragon for me. xo
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