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Tongariro Crossing
December 29th 2010 28/29 December 2010
My first day driving on the left. Super hard, especially in driving rain. It takes a lot of
concentration. We left Golden Springs and drove down to Taupo. It was raining and blowing so
we spent some time souvenir shopping. Taupo sits on the largest lake in NZ but the clouds
were so low we couldn't see much of it. There were 4 foot waves on it, though.
We drove do
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