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Forgotten World Highway and the perfect volcano

Lolomiina: 10.02.2020

From our canoe trip we continued south on the Forgotten World Highway to Mount Taranaki volcano

What is the Forgotten World Highway and what did we see here?

  • The Forgotten World Highway is a 150km long road back in time! Winding roads through beautiful farmland (horizontally folded hills!), jungle reclaiming the land, and cute little rivers tootling
Horizontally folded hills ;)
Horizontally folded hills ;)

Through the old Moki Tunnel

Moki Tunnel
Moki Tunnel
  • Fuel up at Bushlands Campground (true story somewhere in the middle of nowhere!) bonfire, pizza oven, glowworms sticking to rocks like little starry skies, strolling in the canyon, wild honey...
  • In Whangamomona, get a stamp in your passport for $2. You should be able to declare yourself a republic. Because of local disputes! (only 40 adults live in that town...)
Passport Office :D
Passport Office :D
Temporary Sheriff
True story

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The perfect volcano

We fell in love from a distance. Mt. Taranaki is perfect both from Google Earth view and live in front of it! So we had to climb it. The fact that the next eruption is overdue didn't stop us...

The ascent of 1,966m was mostly an unforgiving gravel path with no grip, everyone was crawling. Every step 1.5x.

Ascent
Ascent
Home Sweet Home
Home Sweet Home
Descent
Descent

Was it worth it?

YES YES YES! Watching the sunset in the sea, sunrise ABOVE THE CLOUDS, and we have never seen so much of the MILKY WAY before. Great people in the hut, descending between the clouds. Heavenly ;)

Sunrise above the fluffy cloud carpet, Divine :)
Sunrise above the fluffy cloud carpet
Mt Taranaki, our first climbed volcano
Mt Ruapehu, our first volcano

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From here we then leisurely went to Wellington, also lovingly called Welly...

That kind of weather is allowed too
That kind of weather is allowed too
A new adventure around every corner
A new adventure around every corner

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A little knowledge about New Zealand

If there were 100 people in New Zealand

65 would be of European descent

15 Maori (2nd official language! Sounds nice)

12 Asians

7 Pacific Islanders

1 Other :D


Where do they live?

65 North Island / 19 South Island/ 11 Australia / 4 Rest of the World / 1 On the road


Now the best part:

Population: 4.9 million (Germany:       83 million) 

Population density: 18/km2 (Germany:         232/km2)

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So crazy! Forests in bliss ;) so off to Welly...


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