Tongariro National Park
December 30th 2005 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
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