We are off to a National Park and World Heritage Area. Tongario. It is a beautiful day, cool, crisp autumn weather. Before leaving Rotorua, we went up the Skyline Gondola. What a beautiful view. It gave you a sense of the volcanic nature of the area when you looked out to Lake Rotorua and see the caldera.
On top of the mountain you see more evidence of the madness in this country for extreme sports. There is a sky swing that sends you out over the edge at 150kph (95mph) and a series of luge runs downhill. If the Schnierle family were here, they would be riding everything. Mike really wanted to do the luge run but I said it is too early in the vacation for such a thing!
We are off to Tongario. It is a nice drive down to Taupo, where we lunch lakeside. You can see the volcanoes at the end of the lake. As
we got closer, the volcanoes really loomed over the terrain. We decided on some hikes after getting information at the visitor center. We ruled out the Tongario Crossing; it is almost 20 km. There are a number of shorter hikes that we are looking at for tomorrow.
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