What can I do today? There is different things to do and visit but it’s difficult to find the motivation with all this clouds above my head. I write always about the weather but since about two weeks it’s like this grrr! I WANT SUNNY AND WARM DAYS!
Because of these sticky clouds I stayed maybe 3 or 4 hours in the library to make my plan, prepare my questions for the information centreer and recharge my tablet. I would like to go to Turangi, on the south part of the lake because there is a famous one day trek between 2 big volcanoes : Tongariro (1967m) and Ngauruhoe (2291m). These two volcanoes are in “The Lord of the Ring” movie (l took a picture the first day when I arrived in Taupō). Actually there is still snow and the weather is not on my side. If I want to do it now, I should pay a guide and have specific snow equipment. I don’t want to put myself in danger but I might do it in 7 months when the weather probably more suitable. They said it’s one of the tenth best trek in the world!! How can I leave New Zealand without doing this?!
So finally I’m out but bouaah! It’s grey everywhere! And where are the wonderful volcanoes hey? Behind that heavy fluffy curtain for sure!
The port and the beginning of Huka falls river I visited yesterday.
I’m now in the city center. The streets are quiet, same as the other towns but it’s more spacious here.
I found these graphs around. Good style and better than grey…
I’m continuing cycling with no precise goal. I’m 200m away from the main shopping avenue. The streets are empty and so large.
Le chalet suisse is very far from its original country 🙂
On the other side, a park.
I’m now 400m away from the center, there is always this spacious area and nobody outside.
I’m getting closer to the lake. The woman at the information center told me that there is a track along the lake. It’s not the perfect day to discover it but I have nothing else to do.
All along the lake the hotels are waiting for the touristic season to start.
That must be the famous track. Here we go 🙂
Almost all these places are empty.
Wait a second, this little river is actually hot water :-). Cool!
That’s so marvelous hey!
I don’t know why I took this picture, even why I kept it and put it here… Nothing special like this text… but I’ll remember it 🙂
Always theses empty hotels. A bit boring isn’t it?
Maybe I should go to the cinema. It’s a perfect day for that 🙂
I like this one 🙂
Finally I’m back to the center but I have no idea where the cinema is. I’ve been to the address indicated online but the building was empty. Maybe there is no cinema any more. What can I do now? Buy some food, that is a good idea 🙂 Then I will come back to my tent otherwise I’m sure I will spend my dollars for no reason. See ya!
Poor damdam! All is grey… and green! A few weeks only to wait and see the sun shining! The spring in NZ is like on the French riviera… raining! I prefer automn. We went to the beach yesterday, but I’m not simming, Gilles only.
The photographies are beautiful, but the little town seem “ghost town”. It’s so empty! Without cinema… I die!! lol! What films in cinema in NZ ? American? French? Italian?
Big kiss
Hello, I’ve never find the cinema in Taupō finally but on the website there was on French movie and other American ones.