National Park Railway Station, Train Ride and impressions from the carriage

Recommended by our friendly driver David, the Lemonade Scones were at least as good and even more messy than promised.

Hike through wood and mountains, back to Whakapapa via Bruce Road with a brief stop at Fergusson’s Café for Muffins, Apples, Hot Chocolate and Coffee. The only place for decaf coffee in the whole village 🙂

… feeding women on camping food, cereals and coffee might lead to minor tensions 🙂

But we still made it to Fergusson’s Café, to the Village Store and to the Visitors’ Center.

Hints:

– We are where the blue light is.

– There is a baby hidden in almost every picture.

Announced as a 15 minutes walk, taking us roughly an hour, this has been our smallest walk so far. But the chance to throw stones into the Whakapapa river it easily made it into the Top 10 hitlist for the small ones.

another example of small things being the biggest attractions

Waking up above the clouds with an always changing view out of our little apartment house, it was a good day to go hiking. we chose a walk to the Taranaki Falls which were to be made in 2 hours.