Entry Date: 27.01.2020, at 13:00:00 hrs (local)

Whangarei - Whangarei

Tongariro Massiv

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PRID: 11854
LegID: 323
LegNo: 71
Latitude: S035°50.27'
Longitude: E174°24.00'
Day#: 934
Log (Total): 51195 nm
After 420 km on the road yesterday with a good nights sleep at a little Tavern west of lake Taupo we continue today our trip south.

It is beautiful summer weather and we take a stop at lake Taupo to have a refreshing swim in the lake.

Later we take the road halfway up to the Tongariro Massiv and have lunch in the middle of scree and boulders. We feel like on the moon.

The Tongariro mountains are a couple of active volcanoes, up to 1978 meters with the last eruption in 2012. At several areas steem fountains are boubling up. But those volcanoes are just the southern boarder of the super volcanoe Taupo, only visible to tourists like us, as the crater lake Taupo with a size of 622 square kilometers. It is the largest lake of New Zealand. Taupo Is the most active and productive Rhyolith volcanoe in the world. It is hard to imagine, which effects a break out of this super volcanoe would have on the climate of our planet Earth!