| Mt Taranaki Posted Tuesday, 19 June 2007 | ||
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| We drove to the town of New Plymouth in the pissing rain, and then hibernated in the van subsisting on porridge for 36 hours until the sun shone. We came here primarily to hike Mt Taranaki, a dormant volcano, but when the clouds parted to reveal an absolutely enormous cone looming over the town, we decided to downgrade to a five-hour hike up part of the side. It was incredible beautiful but foolishly none of us stretched our muscles afterwards so we all spent the following day in agonies. However, we’re all really hard and consider this to be a mere warm up for the big one in two days - the Tongariro Crossing. | ||
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