Tongariro National Park

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Having consulted our maps and guides hard we decided to skip most of the South, East, West and North of North Island. Fortunately that leaves us a little bit in the middle. First stop was Tongariro where we walked the "Tongariro Crossing" ( Billed as the best one day walk in New Zealand ). Basically it takes you about 17km past Mount Doom and Mordor with a fair bit of climbing. For full effect we decided to do it in a major hurricane. Sara now rates "Wind" as her greatest fear ( something I had suspected for some time ) just above "Heights", "Walking" and "Volcanoes". To be fair, it was a little scary walking along a couple of the ridges in 70kmph winds and Sara did only sit down and cry once. Otherwise it was quite spectacular and a good day.

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