Our Journey has been incredible. I would first like to say....We Are Married! We left Tauranga and drove thru Rotorua and Taupo to our first camp site at the base of Tongorio National Park after Christmas. We awoke to constant rain and continued on with our hike over the crossing. It was very cold, wet and extremely windy at times. We had no view, being in the clouds for all but the last part of our decent. But I was told it would have had magnificent views of several volcanic craters, the dormant volacanoes around us, deep blue sulfuric lakes and the largest lake in NZ, Lake Taupo with all the surrounding areas. In short, painful challenge, but well worth it. We will be returning someday to do it as it was meant to be done.
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