White Horse Hill Campground Aoraki Mount Cook National Park Campsite New Zealand
White Horse Hill Campground is the place to camp in Aoraki Mount Cook National Park and is located a couple kilometers from Mount Cook Village amidst extraordinary hiking tracks like Hooker Valley Track and Sealy Tarns Track. Named after an adjacent hill, the campground sits on a valley floor split by massive mountain ridges. Glacier-covered Mount Sefton looms large above the campsites,... Read more.
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Waimangu Volcanic Valley Walk Rotorua New Zealand Main Valley Walkway to Lake Rotomahana Mount Haszard Hiking Trail Frying Pan Lake World's Largest Hot Springs Inferno Crater Lake Waimangu Hydrothermal System
Waimangu Volcanic Valley is an incredible hydrothermal area near Rotorua in the Bay of Plenty Region of New Zealand. Walk down the valley to get close to Frying Pan Lake, a mesmerizing blue pool that is the largest hot spring in the world. Cross a landscape shaped by a volcanic eruption in 1886, passing hydrothermal features and the site of what had been world's tallest geyser. An easy... Read more.
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Tagged with · Geyser Basins · Hot Springs · Hydrothermal · Nature Trails · Rotorua · Waimangu Volcanic Valley
Distance: 4.75 kilometers / 2.95 miles · Elevation change: 115 meters / 380 feet
By: Published: Last updated: August 21, 2019
Lake Rotomahana Boat Cruise Waimangu Volcanic Valley Rotorua New Zealand
Some amazing parts of Waimangu Volcanic Valley are best visited on foot, but others can only be seen by boat. On the Lake Rotomahana Boat Cruise, you'll be swept around a large lake near Rotorua in the Bay of Plenty Region of New Zealand. The lake was created after a volcanic eruption in 1886 and the area is still geothermally active. The boat gets close to steaming vents and geysers right... Read more.
By: Published: Last updated: August 20, 2019
Wai-O-Tapu Thermal Wonderland Rotorua Thermal Reserve Boardwalk Waiotapu Walking Track New Zealand Wai o'tapu Thermal Wonderland
What is a thermal wonderland? It's exactly that – an exceptional landscape of geothermal features like large colorful hot springs, steaming fumaroles, spouting geysers, bubbling mud pots, sinter terraces, and even waterfalls. Wai-O-Tapu Thermal Wonderland is incredible, and outside of Yellowstone National Park, there's almost nowhere else like it on Earth. Wai-O-Tapu is located 30... Read more.
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Tagged with · Hydrothermal · Nature Trails · Rotorua · Waiotapu
Distance: 3.05 kilometers / 1.9 miles · Elevation change: 20 meters / 65 feet
By: Published: Last updated: September 9, 2019
Mount Maunganui Track Base Track Walk Summit Hike Mauao Tauranga New Zealand Mt Maunganui
Mount Maunganui is an extinct volcano crowning the tip of a peninsula at the mouth of Tauranga Harbour in the Bay of Plenty Region of New Zealand. The mountain has stunning sea views from its base all the way up to the summit, so it is a delight to hike. Next to Mount Maunganui, a beach city with the same name covers the flat part of the peninsula between sandy strips and is a popular spot... Read more.
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Tagged with · Free Trails · Mount Maunganui · Ocean Views · Summits · Tauranga
Distance: 6.8 kilometers / 4.2 miles · Elevation change: 230 meters / 755 feet
By: Published: Last updated: August 29, 2019