A post a little 'long as it does not update the blog for a while' .... Let's start with the most unpleasant things: a Rotorua ci hanno fregato una SDCard dalla macchina fotografica che di solito usa Janis. Se l’è dimenticata in stanza in ostello quando siamo andati al museo cittadino e il giorno dopo si è accorta che lo slot della scheda era vuota. I nostri sospetti cadono su un tipo strano che è arrivato in ostello al mattino, con in mano una sacca piena di mazze di golf in un giorno che diluviava come ai tempi di Noè e una valigetta che, una volta aperta, conteneva un libro intitolato “I passi di Cristo” e due coltelli lunghi come il mio braccio. Se anche non è stato lui, è comunque il probabile responsabile indiretto visto che aveva la bruttissima abitudine di uscire dalla stanza e lasciare la porta spalancata…Per il resto gli altri roommates were a English girl who was with us at the museum, another Spaniard with whom we had made friends there and really seemed the type that steals other people's cards and a guy by the Indian sections, sleeping with a teddy bear and disappeared in the morning early and returned usually in the evening ... Luckily the night before the theft had downloaded the photos on the PC and the damage is minimal ... Two days later Tuapo we instead had a little accident with the car in a parking lot ... Maori female drivers, not and 'insurance and the police intervene only in case of injuries ... the damage is small, but I think you need to change the bumper ... we have much reason, but' our word against his ... if she admits fault with our insurance must pay in person ... honestly I doubt that will happen ... we have a franchise and I fear that we'll pay for it (the question that surely someone will "because you have not done the Kasco," the answer is that with 54 days of hiring, the cost was more than half of the deductible). We come now to the good stuff ... we did what is called the most beautiful a day's drive of New Zealand: The Tongariro Crossing. It 's a 19.4 km route that winds around the mountains Tongariro and Ngauruhoe, Mount Doom in practice ... It starts with a fairly flat stretch on the slopes of the volcano, then up around two of the craters that make up the Tongariro, with a beautiful view of Ngauruhoe. Past the two craters (one active ...), you face a series of ponds whether created as a result of eruptions and older, a little further, third largest lake of the same origin. At this point you can not really decide which way to turn around so the scenery is beautiful: on one hand the lakes, on the other craters, on the other the valley from "Lord of the Rings" ... really beautiful, the best in Iceland. Going meet some hot springs before ending in a 3 km trail in the forest. A discrete drudgery, especially for those, like us, are not trained, but doable in about 8 hours walk. In practice, a day's work ... but this time really well spent, certainly among the best 8 hours spent in my life ... Previously we had been, as mentioned, Tuapo to see the Craters of the Moon (craters emitting vapors ... cute, but nothing more ', and a waterfall rather anonymous) and the Waitomo caves, to see the glow worms. In practice, the larvae that live in caves and in contact with the dark, you light up like fireflies turning the rock into an embroidery of stars ... must try! Even before we were in Rotorua, to see the largest geyser in New Zealand, a bit 'disappointing compared to what we saw in Iceland. For Joseph: yes, the road di Cape Renga è quella che porta sulla punta sperduta in cima alla Nuova Zelanda, dove il Mare di Tasmania e l’Oceano si incontrano. Non so bene cosa faremo domani: dobbiamo andare verso Wellington per imbarcarci per il Sud con l’inizio di marzo. Ieri sera un ragazzo olandese mi ha detto che al venerdì ci sono spesso partite di rugby….mi tenta…c’e’ solo da convincere la Principessa Koala che ora è già collassata dai 20 km di passeggiata. Un tempo si addormentava come un sasso dopo gli straordinari alla Frati…almeno per un po’ la vita può davvero cambiare. Basta crederci.
Ps: ci eravamo ripromessi di creare un album con gli highlights fotografici dal nostro arrivo in New Zealand, ma siamo troppo stanchi. Su http://picasaweb.google.it/HanssSquonk/ ci sono però le foto della passeggiata di oggi.
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