A tour of Taranaki, torrential Tongarriro and onto Taupo
July 15th 2007 Back on the road heading north we targeted the nicely cone shaped Taranaki volcano near New Plymouth, otherwise known as Mt. Egmont. It last erupted 150 years ago and is classed as dormant not extinct, but as we wound our way around it in a clockwise direction it looked cool but didn’t show any signs of life. Keen to get to the central plateau and the Tongariro National Park whilst we had a ra
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