Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
New Zealand's Nine Great Walks
Taranaki Falls (
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)
, Tongariro National Park
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The dynamic, dramatic features of Tongariro National Park are celebrated in
its status as a Unesco World Heritage Area. The park also proved a fitting
backdrop for
The Lord of the Rings,
with its volcanoes taking a starring role. You,
too, can get in on the action on this circuit (
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), which sports nonstop views,
not only of crazy craters, steaming vents, glacial valleys, native forest, alpine mead-
ows and surreal lakes, but also of Mt Taranaki, standing solitarily in the west. This is
big-picture stuff.
