Today is hiking day! Coromandel Forest Park - Waiomu Kauri Grove

Rest and relax - that is the motto for Coromandel. You know - yesterday we checked into a really great hotel with a pool and a 39 degree cedar wood whirlpool... and where are we? Hike! High mountains, stairs, jungle, paths flooded by streams.

But it was worth it! Two hours through the jungle of New Zealand's North Island, the Coromandel Forest Park. It chirps and chirps and chatters among the native ferns, palms, bushes and trees. There are small streams everywhere and the path winds over many wooden bridges, every now and then a bench or a rock by the stream to rest on.

At the very end there are stairs, not two or three, nope - a lot of them, really a lot of them that have to be climbed (not that I have a problem with that, I carry all the backpacks, a child on my shoulders and pull my wife - child calls). me in awe Indiana Chuck-Pitti Norris), only to be rewarded: At the top there is a century-old kauri tree. The Kauri trees are also called the green giants of New Zealand...before man discovered the two large islands in the Pacific, New Zealand was covered over and over with forest, plants and these Kauri trees. With the arrival of the Europeans, the kauri tree fell victim first to the ax and later to the sawmills. Today there are only a manageable number of kauri trees left.

What are we doing tomorrow? Relaxing...I think. But: Indiana Chuck-Pitti Norris thinks child steers!

Oh well: Thanks Dirk for letting me wear the FRIZZ the magazine T-shirt in the New Zealand jungle. Very nice!

Now sit on the terrace and ponder a philosophical question: If God wanted stairs, why was man allowed to invent the elevator?

Windshield wiper instead of indicator counter: 49

coming soon

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