Lake Taupo, New Zealand

Tuesday, 5 February 2008

We don't spend much time by Lake Taupo. This might be to do with us getting a raw deal in the campsite we chose, De Bretts, which had us plonked beside a main road for the night. The Top 10 campsite is not mentioned in the Lonely Planet but we passed by it the next day and it looked good. In any case, the 2 hour walk to Huka Falls (New Zealand's most visited tourist attraction) is well worth doing. The Falls don't look to us like a classic waterfall (eejit definition: water falling from a height). Instead huge volumes of water surge through a tight channel and then fall over a short drop.

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