Tripping Lightly
Recently we had occasion to travel from Auckland to Christchurch, scored a relocation rental wagon so updated ourselves on Highway 1 towns and scenery for the first time in 30 years or so. Most remarkable transformation was the once dungy town of Tirau which now is a mecca for the traveller.
Given our rainfall in Victoria this last year or so, we were not strangers to the normal lush green of NZ
Snow clad peaks from the Desert Road, NZ
but certainly the nature of the landforms was refreshingly different. From the pimply hills of the South Auckland and Waikato farmland through the snow blanketed volcanoes of Tongariro, Ruapehu and Ngauruhoe viewed in all their majesty from the Desert Road, then the river riven gorges and flat lands of the Manawatu to the gorse and house pocked hills of Wellington. Read more