Taupo is a tourist town on the shore of Lake Taupo, New Zealand’s largest lake. Lake Taupo fills the caldera of an active volcano. You wouldn’t know it by looking at it, but the volcano is one of the most violent in the world. Its wikipedia page is sobering. While researching, I learned that volcano […]
From Wellington we drove north to Napier. Napier is a small city that was leveled by a massive earthquake in 1931, and was rebuilt in the art deco style of the time. It’s been preserved and kept up fairly well, and is a wonderful place to walk around and admire the detail. Zig-zags, opaque glass, […]
After our train ride across the South Island, we opted to fly from Christchurch up to Wellington rather than renting a car and retracing that part of our route. The world has drastically changed since our last flight 4 months ago, and we weren’t quite sure what to expect. The Christchurch airport was quiet, and […]
The TranzAlpine is billed as “one of the world’s great train rides,” and the “most scenic train in New Zealand.” As a train buff, I had to try it! When we learned that the TranzAlpine train would reopen in July, we replanned our trip so that we could take it before hopping over to the […]
Upon arrival in Nelson we booked ferry tickets to Wellington, which lies across the Cook Strait on the North Island. The act of booking nonrefundable ferry tickets caused the famed TranzAlpine Express train to reopen for business. The TranzAlpine was on my must-do list for New Zealand, so we scrapped our ferry plans and rerouted […]
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