Lake Taupo, N. Island
Our drive from Mt Egmont/Taranaki took us through Tongariro National Park, home to some more volcanoes! Unlike Mt Egmont, which is a dormant volcanoe, one of the ones here, Mt Ruapehu is apparently an active one! In the hope to see some huge volcanoe splurting out rocks and lava we just had to take a look! Unfortunately and, not surprisingly, there was no volcanic action! In fact there hadn't been since 1975!
Upon arriving in Taupo we booked into probably the only hostel in the world with a round pool table! Other than that we once again took to the roads and checked out the local sights including the lake itself (New Zealands largest lake - apparently bigger than the whole of Singapore!) and a place called Huka Falls. We also booked on a 12000ft skydive, which was unfortunately cancelled due to the weather!
Upon arriving in Taupo we booked into probably the only hostel in the world with a round pool table! Other than that we once again took to the roads and checked out the local sights including the lake itself (New Zealands largest lake - apparently bigger than the whole of Singapore!) and a place called Huka Falls. We also booked on a 12000ft skydive, which was unfortunately cancelled due to the weather!
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