Kiwis and Fairy Bread
Mike and Ellen's Travel Adventures
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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. This 19.4 kilometer (12 mile) track is one of the most tramped (hiked) in all of New Zealand. So much so that in good weather it can have 1500 visitors in a single day. It is not an easy walk. There are elevation changes, paths… Read more
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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 sunrise over the Pacific from the comfort of our bed in Miranda, our camper van. The pink sky above the water gave way to a brilliant globe shining through the tall and angular trees called Norfolk pines. Sea Gulls pecked through the garbage that a… Read more
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