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Mike and Ellen's Travel Adventures

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  • Mangahuia to The Tongariro Alpine Crossing to Himatangi: an unexpected journey

    Mangahuia to The Tongariro Alpine Crossing to Himatangi: an unexpected journey

    18 December 2023 One cannot simply just walk into Mordor. Boremir is right. Just hiking (let alone filming) in this setting for Mordor and Mount Doom takes careful planning. And flexibility. Tongariro is a fragile landscape on a living volcano. It has erupted every decade or so for the last century, as recently as 2007. Read more

  • Mount Maunganui to Manganuia: Endor to Mount Doom

    Mount Maunganui to Manganuia: Endor to Mount Doom

    17 December 2023 It has been a day of contrasts. It started on a warm, sunny, beach with a party atmosphere and ended in a dark, wet miserable little campsite that we almost lost. Along the way there were sites spectacular and stinky, crowded and remote, refined and rough, unreal and real. We viewed the Read more