Trip to Taupo

We were planning to take the kids to the snow, and thought it easiest to go to Snowplanet. It's not far from home, it's indoors so there is no weather issues, and if we get too cold we can step outside to warm up.

Then some friends suggested we take the kids to see the snow on a real mountain, to experience it naturally, as there is nothing else like it. We decided this was worthwhile doing so we booked 2 nights in Taupo and headed off for a few days.

The whole trip was fantastic, starting with the drive there. Everything is so green!! After being in a drought restricted area in Australia, it was such an amazing change.

The following photos are taken from a car, on a highway, so please excuse the bits of blur and occasional lack of focus, but you'll get the general gist.

The Green Rolling Hills

They have trains here too!

and plenty of Cows...

The train was a huuuge freight train, lots of cars on it, and going a fair rate of knots. Great name for it - Kiwi rail, many things over here have the Kiwi name in them. The other interesting thing on our travels was the large amount of cows, compared to the lacking amount of sheep... and I'm not saying any more on that.