Coromandel Peninsula

Finally my last trip in New Zealand. It startet with a complicated hitchhiking action from Tauranga to Whitianga. I needed a record number of 8 different rides for just 170 kilometers. but I did it still in a really good time of just 4 hours, and I met some really interesting people. Two of them were dealers and tried to sell me some dope in the car. :) After I arrived Whitianga I checked in in the "on the beach backpackers" which was really nice and comfortable, but soon I realized that all windsurf school and equipment hire companies do not operate in winter, but I still spent 4 days at this hostel and the area around. I was at the Cathedral Cove, which is a steep limestone coast and one of new Zealand's most famous sights. Some kilometers further I dug a hole in the hot water beach and had my own spa, In the end it was a really hard job to dig a hole when the waves destroying my spa bath all the time. On the hot water beach is coming warm water from about 2000 meter deep to the surface and than you can build your own spa bath in the sand for about 2 hours before the high tide is coming back and covers the hot spots again. After the 4 days I traveled on with Emily an Malaysian girl. We had a look at the town of Coromandel and a waterpark nearby.

but now the pics

Sunrise at the beach in Whitianga

still sunrise

in the way to the cathedral cove

turkeys (I guess)

cathedral cove

and a small waterfall at cathedral cove

the archway at cathedral cove

and again

Emily

the hostel, looks a bit like a playground

the way it should be

crazy kiwis

and a last waterfall near Coromandel

  Fresse out !!!

Tongariro Northern Circuit

And now here are the pictures of my second Great Walk, the Northern Circuit in the Tongariro National Park. There are 3 Volcano's in the Park, Mt Ruapehu, Ngauruhoe and Tongariro. There are some sulphur lakes and a lot of purnice stone around this area. but now the pictures.

View from Ketehahi Hut over Lake Taupo

The way up to the hut

the guy's i walked with

the view in the morning from my bed

a lot of needle ice carrying stones and dust

the sunrise at the hut

Lake taupo

a bit later

and from bed again

Mt Ngauruhoe (or Mt Doom from LOTR)

in the central crater

red crater

emerald lakes, they smelled like rotten eggs

red crater again

and Mt Doom again

it was just a little bit cold and windy

Bildunterschrift hinzufügen

view over the central crater and blue lake

and now the ring is finally in the fires of Mt Doom

we could even see Mt Taranaki at the west coast

on the way to Mt Tongariro summit

Mt Doom again

and Lake Taupo from the summit

smoking rocks

and the snowy peaks of Mt Ruapehu

a Waterfall

Mt Ruapehu again

and at sunset

sunset at Mt Doom

and the sunrise

Taranaki Falls

Taranaki Falls

and again the Taranaki Falls

 Fresse over and out for today !!!