Instead of sampling all of the fine NZ dishes on our first evening in Taupo, we chose to eat at the cheap alternative of Pizza Hut- how exciting of us! Though this neatly leads me into a question that has been playing on my mind; why is it that a lot of restaurants across the country seem to be closed on a Tuesday? Anyway, continuing our very non New Zealand themed day we headed to the Irish bar, Mulligan’s. However this did lead to me having my first pint of Tui, which was incidentally my first NZ beer- though no worries Jen carried on the non NZ theme with a couple of Amaretto and cokes.
Day two in Taupo was a day we had both been equally as excited about for some time, the day we went out on the Huka Falls Jet. For those of you who don’t know what that is, I’ll try and give a quick explanation; the Huka Falls Jet tears around the Huka Falls at about 50+ mph, the engine is run by the intake of water which is ejected out of the back, it swings past a variety of objects coming within a matter of inches (not exaggerating) and every so often doing 360 degree turns- resulting in getting a little wet, though in Jen’s case this was less a little and more a substantial amount, in my case however; very little. Unfortunately neither of us could take any pictures, as you can imagine it probably wouldn’t have been the most sensible thing to have a camera with you. However despair not, friends and family will see some proof on our return.
After our very exciting beginning to the day, the pace slowed down. From the Jet we headed to the Huka Falls track taking about ¾ of an hour - 1 hour. At the end of track you are greeted by the falls- granted we had just seen them via the boat but it was nice to be able to take some photographs and chill out.
From here we took the 1 hour - 1 hour 30 minute trek back to Taupo, this did include some time taking photographs and watching people bungy jump. Jen was completely against the idea, I was however considering it- by considering of course I mean a brief thought went through my mind… I mean come on;
Screw loose comes to mind! Anyway I digressed from the walk. The walk itself is an amazing path along the Waikato river. Which is definitely the clearest and cleanest river we have ever seen, Jen was completely in awe of it- taking into consideration she absolutely hates water, I think she was contemplating swimming in it.
I don’t think a picture can ever really do justice to the river, unfortunately we didn’t have any swimming gear and it was way too cold to go skinny dipping.
Our final day in Taupo was a very chilled out event and gave us a chance to soak up Taupo’s atmosphere and to reflect on a place I personally very much enjoyed, though Jen has Coromandel firmly in top place at the moment. This also gave me the chance to prove my male superiority at a game of mini golf. I did thankfully manage to prove this, though it was a close affair and I didn’t gloat at all…well maybe a little bit. In reflection Taupo is a place I definately rate quite highly and an area that I would love to visit again.
Next up and an area that I foresee rating very high in Jen’s books; Napier.
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