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Day 8: Dirty fingernails and a big smile

Testing, Testing...

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Js_Journey on December 21, 2007 from Taupo, New Zealand

from the travel blog: Jen's Journey: The Un-showered Version

Come Again Another Day

It was still raining when we reached Taupo, which ruled out our sky dive hopes. Besides a satisfyingly torrential waterfall in the same beautiful turquoise of my Guatemalan favourite, Semuc Champey, there was nothing more to see. I mean to do central north island New Zealand no...

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Alex Kent on December 6, 2007 from Taupo, New Zealand

from the travel blog: On the Varieties of Nature

Crossing the Tongariro - Night 50

To release my inner Sherpa. At least that was the plan. I awoke at prior to 5am, unaided by the alarm Ken (a St. Louis native) had set in our room. Today, we trek the Tongariro Crossing and, if the weather cooperates, climb Mount Ngauruhoe, otherwise known as Mt. Doom from Lord of the Rings. ...

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exumenius on November 29, 2007 from Taupo, New Zealand

from the travel blog: Kiwis and Kangaroos

Meandering to Taupo - Night 49

The Magic bus departed promptly at 9 am this morning. Our final destination for the day was Taupo, only 100 kilometers to the south. We would, however, not arrive until the middle of the afternoon, as many ancillary activities were on the schedule for the day. The first stop was the Lady Knox...

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exumenius on November 28, 2007 from Taupo, New Zealand

from the travel blog: Kiwis and Kangaroos

Flying Pink Tin Can

May 28 During the 3 hour drive up to Lake Taupo, we phoned up and enquired into doing a sky dive. After much deliberating over different companies, we popped into one when we got to the airport, which was only 10 mins after finishing on the phone. Within another 20 mins they had persuaded to...

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James & Tracey on May 28, 2007 from Taupo, New Zealand

from the travel blog: James & Tracey World Tour

Hard Graft !

Bay of Islands & Taupo First few days were getting better, had had a few freebies too a ride on a jet Boat, a Maori concert ,the morning sand boarding...this jobs a doddle... A flash of work and loads of freebies...fair enough the hours are long, Sunrise till well after sunset, but I'm...

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tomrendell on March 22, 2007 from Taupo, New Zealand

from the travel blog: New Zealand

Time to Skydive or not.....

Following the tranquility of Napier, it was off to the Real Adventure Capital of New Zealand - Taupo. Set on the largest lake of the North Island, Taupo is a growing city that has catered for adventure activities for a very long time. We were eagerly awaiting our arrival to Taupo to get a chance...

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Priya&Tim on March 15, 2007 from Taupo, New Zealand

from the travel blog: Cheeky Round The World Trip

Mt Doom

The Tongariro Crossing is an 8 hr Hike taking you across and past Mt Ngauruhoe, Mt Ruapehu and Mt Tongariro known to the Lord of the Rings fans as Mt Doom and Mordoor, spectacular scenery! A real climb. Was with the girls at the start, but they were far too slow, so I caught up to the lads...

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tomrendell on February 16, 2007 from Taupo, New Zealand

from the travel blog: New Zealand

Dive Dive Dive

Today another busy day on the FK express...we were up early and off to see the Geothermal features at the Taupo volcanic zone, saw a bubbling mud pit, a geezer erupt 30 ft into the air...and all sorts...it stunk though...a bit like Rory’s room in the flat! Later on we shot over to the River...

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tomrendell on February 15, 2007 from Taupo, New Zealand

from the travel blog: New Zealand

Day 7: Putaruru to Taupo

The saddle sores start bleeding again after an hour or so. The worst of this is not the pain of riding on bleeding sores, so much as the anticipation of taking the shorts off at the end of the day, by which time the inner seams will have embedded themselves in, and slightly fused with, the...

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John and Claud on January 28, 2007 from Taupo, New Zealand

from the travel blog: Cape Reinga to Bluff

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