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New Zealand is a land of extraordinary and diverse scenic beauty. A wide variety of natural attractions await here,
including rain forest, beautiful beaches, high snow-covered mountains with glaciers, volcanoes,
green rolling hills, hot springs and thermal vents, and unusual wildlife including the extraordinary Kiwi
and Penguins. For the adventurous, almost every conceivable adventure can be found - helihikes to the
top of crevasse-filled glaciers, treks over snow-covered active volcanoes, hikes through rain-forests,
surfing, scuba diving, hang-gliding, street luge rides down steep mountain roads, zooming over raging river
torrents while hanging from a cable crossing and on and on. I'd return in a heartbeat.
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 The Tongariro Crossing One of the highlights of my trip through New Zealand was the hike known as The Tongariro Crossing |
 The Emerald Lakes The Tongariro Crossing takes hikers past these beautiful emerald-colored lakes. |
Mount Ngauruhoe There is a detour from the main path of the hike that gives hikers the chance to climb to the summit of Mt. Ngauruhoe - a beautiful conically-shaped volcano. |
 Me at Tongariro |
 Snowcapped Mt. Ngauruhoe |
 View of Mt. Ngauruhoe |
 Toward The Summit |
 The Franz Josef Glacier Another great adventure I had while in New Zealand was a heli-hike on the Franz-Josef glacier. This is a view of the glacier as we approached in the helicopter. |
Close Above the Franz-Josef Glacier This is a closer view of the glacier as we approached by chopper. |
 A Glacier Crevasse We were equipped with cramp-ons and ice picks to maneuver ourselves near these deep crevasses. |
 Me In Ice Cave The ice caves and crevasses displayed beautiful blue glacial ice which can be thousands of years old. |
Huka Falls Huka Falls has the unusual beauty owing to glacial ice melt and minerals that give it this extraordinary color. |
 Lake Taupos Carved Face This Maori carved image was on a stone face on one shore of Lake Taupo. Lake Taupo also has the distinction of being quite hot in some places due to subterranean thermal activity near the surface. |
 Buller River This is the Buller River area of New Zealand. Nearby this location there is a swinging bridge that crosses a raging portion of the river. There is also a cable from which you can hang and zoom across that same portion of the river. Doing both makes for an exciting trip over and back. |
Ferry Crossing at Picton The ferry crossing at Picton is a scenic boatride. If traveling by car, as I did, it's cheaper to leave your rental car on one side and re-rent another car on the other side. |
 Coast Near Tutukaka The coastal scenery along the north shore of the south island is very nice. |
 Karaka Point Near Picton |
Maori Church Art at Hiruharama This church shows the influence of the Maori culture |
 Church at Hiruharama The altar of this church has this excellent Maori wood carving. |
 Moeroki Boulders One stretch of the Eastern shore of the South Island has these interesting spherically-shaped boulders. |
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