First of all, here are the pictures from Mt. Ngauruhoe and some landscapes in the area, as well as the White Water Rafting This Thursday I went to Whangarei Falls, in Whangarei, not to much to cheer for was my feeling. Didn’t find the city as a whole very funny either, the best thing was probably the hostel I was staying at, so I’m not very sad that I left one day earlier than planned. On Friday I went back to National Park to get my camera that I’d forgotten, and slept there for one more night before going on to Hahei, on the Coromandel Peninsula on the eastern coast on Saturday. I stayed here for two nights. It was a very nice place, but not too much to do there and quite the drive to the closest neighbouring city. The main reason I went to Hahei was to see Cathedral Cove, that I heard from a lot of people as very beautiful, and that was used as the place where the Pevense kids first comes when they return to the and Narnia in the second Narnia movie, Prince Caspian. I walked here on Sunday morning, a nice walk through some forest down to the sea, where there are some cliffs and the main point of interest on Cathedral Cove, a naturally formed stone archway, that fill up at high tide (at least to the point where you cant walk under it), but is empty aprox. 4 hrs either side of low tide. This Monday I went back to Hobbiton in Matamata. We had a really nice day and it was fun to get to visit this place one more time, but our guide this time around wasn’t as good as last time. He didn’t have as many stories and didn’t let us have as many photo stops, and he skipped a whole section and another one he didn’t mentioned anything about, we just walked past it. I will not post any new pictures form Hobbiton right now, as I posted some earlier, but I will use mostly the new pictures in my upcoming post about all of the Lord of the Rings places I visited. |