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Taranaki, New Zealand - A Hidden Secret
Blog: A Travel Around the World - 18 June 2010
Despite being extravangantly beautiful Taranaki is skipped by travelers who follow the North island-South island itinerary way too often. Which is unfortunate, because not only is getting close and personal with Taranaki volcano one truly enjoyable experience but taking your time to check the nearby black sand beaches will result in great empty surf and windsurf (the road that surrounds Egmont National Park is appropriately named Surf Highway) and just as good photos (cape Egmont lighthouse).
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Hiking past Mount Doom
Blog: Itinerant Londoner - 14 November 2009
With only six days to spend in New Zealand, I didn’t have time to do very much. But it wasn’t hard to choose what to do. I’d often read that the Tongariro Alpine Crossing is one of the world’s best day hikes, so after a couple of days relaxing in Auckland after the long flight [...]
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Lady in the Land of the Long White Cloud
Blog: A Lady in London - 7 November 2009
I arrived in New Zealand on January 2 and Rob and I drove straight from Auckland to the Coromandel Peninsula. The scenery was spectacular. We saw beautiful coastline, rolling hills, farmland, and lots of small towns along the way. We even got chased down a hill by a gigantic sheep!We stopped in Thames and Coromandel before taking the 309 road, a one-lane gravel shortcut, to Hahei. On the way we came across two adorable hedgehogs and a possum, all of whom I was tempted to bring along with us.
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Coromandel Peninsula: Where Jeremy finally catches a wave
Blog: 12FOOT3 - 20 December 2008
This will be the last post about what we did in New Zealand…makes me kind of sad all over again to say goodbye to our Kiwi adventure! Our final stop in New Zealand was the Coromandel Peninsula, which is about 1 hour east of Auckland. But before that, we boarded the ferry in Picton and once [...]
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