Sunrise over Mt. Ngauruhoe
At the start of our go at the Tongariro Crossing. This walk around 8hours takes you through, up, down and over Volcanic craters, Volcanoes, Sulphur lakes and some of the most impressive scenery we'd ever seen, which is something to be said, even in New Zealand. Mt.Ngauruhoe was used as Mt. Doom in Lord of the Rings, and the surrounding areas for Mordor, such as the Devils Staircase (seriously that bad!, especially when you are like Samwise Gamgee, laden with Photographic equipment and too many clothes on a hot day like I was)
The Polynesian Maori reached New Zealand in about A.D. 800. In 1840, their chieftains entered into a compact with Britain, the Treaty of Waitangi, in which they ceded sovereignty to Queen Victoria while retaining territorial rights. In that same year... ... read more 
