Whakapapa

Stella and I drove here after Taupo. Whakapapa is within Tongariro National Park, and right in the middle of this park are 3 rather large volcano's - Mount Ruapehu, Mt Tongariro & Mt Ngauruhoe. Mt Ruapehu was active during 1995-96. I kept asking Stella about what we would do if the Mt erupted again, she humoured me for a wee while.
We went for a 2 hour walk to the Silca Rapids and was nice to be out of the van. We where sat having lunch, enjoying the piece and quite when a school group turned up, but we ended up talking to on of the guides for 30 minutes, which was interested. The scenery was awesome and Ruapehu was used as Mt Doom in Lord of the Rings.