Following comments on the ticket line As stated in the previous article, we are motivated to do the Tongariro Northern Circuit, a 42km loop in the mountains. Not being experts in hiking (even though we are becoming better equipped) we wanted to make this trip in 4 days. Problems with space on the campsites we decided to make the trek in 3 days after all. The lady of the Department of Conservation said that it was largely done. Casually, begin a trek to 15h when you run that morning to be on time and employing it well anyway. But in the distance …. This is the refuge (the small white square in the center), it'll be time to ask a little. And especially to test our new equipment. Night has fallen rather quickly when we were eating so here's the only picture of our tent that night camouflage. The night was long … very long … too long. Despite waking up at 6:30 am we waited for the sunrise with impatience. The temperature in the tent at 7am was around 4 ° C (that's what the thermometer said that we had). In any case a very cold night with a lot of wind. Just enough time to grab a bite, to warm in the shelter, put away the tent and we left for the big day. Program, twenty kilometers with a lot of climb. It includes part of the circuit of Tongariro Alpine Crossing. Precisely the part that we made in the clouds. We realized the really difficult to climb. We are quite proud. It was a lot of breaks, but we managed to keep the distance with the group that followed us and had no big backpack and exceed another group. So there we wanted to show how landscapes change at all in any but the colors come out wrong, but we pass at once from red to yellow. Less than 30 minutes after our arrival, torrential waters begin to fall, and that, throughout the night. (Luckily that was mounted just before the tent). After a second night, where this time we have not been cold, we are pleased that despite a steady rain and wind all night, the tent did not fail. This last part is less interesting than others. Mainly large areas of rain, large pools hidden in the tall grass. But the last hour of walking is really nice. But let us not rest on our laurels, the program is responsible for these 10 days, so just got to the car, we dried and left for Waitomo. We found a place in a backpacker. After 3 days we need a bed, enough to dry the tent, and especially a hot shower. A $ 60 a visit to a cave filled with fireflies we prefer to visit with us even a small cave (free) but not fireflies. But the days pass quickly, the road is still long, so head for Auckland where we will spend the evening at Tof who follows his 3-month English course. It offers free lodging in his apartment in a student residence. Therefore we can find at the entrance to the forest to a small laundry for cleaning cheap hiking shoes at the entrance and exit. At this point of the island, you can see the connection between Tasman Sea and Pacific Ocean, it is not very obvious in the photo but there are waves in both directions. In our brief guide to Regional Parks are located a small campsite in the Bay of Spirit, just below Cape Reinga. After 17 km of gravel track to the Loeb one side we reach isolated and beautiful. We wanted to try a swim, but the MNS (lifeguards) present in large quantities given the affluence we have recommended to go there. After a night of fierce battle against mosquitoes that have sneaked into the tent during the 15 sec regulatory opening to return, we spent the night we do not eat these hungry monsters. Although they have killed more than a 10aine before sleeping, and that has inspected the tent for almost an hour, we woke up with I think a good 20aine bites of each. If not more. It's pretty, but when it comes to Cape Reinga and we did a little whole north coast is beautiful but not sensational. A little traumatized by our mosquito bites us we do we scratch all day, we decide to spend the night in a real room in a backpacker. A farm which is rather huge backpacker, summer camp for school, vacation and during motocross / horses welcome WWOOFers (up to 15 simultaneously) with cows and horses out of sight on a property 400 Hectares of … well something pretty cool and not so industrial that. The day we arrived, there was a group of children present to a summer camp that was a show for their parents because it was their last day here. In short, we think it's a chance to finally have a show in the way Maori is not for tourists, so that is very kind and certainly more true. After a night to tear the skin with pimples that itch us a lot we decided to have the soothing cream. Same style as Bay of Spirit. After being addicted to anti-mosquito and spread with soothing cream, we were able to sleep peacefully. Otherwise great article, Staila big poof of the poses / stall lol and the trunk of the body, you feel the spirit adventurer who travels light. Good certe c