Ohakune

Day 5
We had breakfast at 8am, brought our bags to the bus at 8:45am and were on the road to Ohakune (not much to do here but it broke up the drive to Wellington). We stopped at Tawhai waterfall which was beautiful with amazing mountain/volcano views from the road. Dan said the water was drinkable so we all filled up our water bottles but due to the rain you could taste the dirt. We stopped again about 30 minutes down the road to go to the bathrooms and read information about the area. When we got to Ohakune we stopped in town for lunch and then those doing the day's activity parted ways (it was a bike ride and after my Rottnest biking experience I opted out of this activity). The rest of us were taken to the hotel (Kings Hotel Ohakune) right near a volcano. The town is mostly a skiing town so there isn’t really anything to do on the off season and the hotel was a 30 minute walk from town. I was rooming with Jess and Kim (they were friends traveling together from Sydney) and after hanging in the room for a little we decided to go for a walk along the stream which was pretty. We got back to the hotel and grabbed some beers at the restaurant bar and played some ping pong. At 5:30pm we had to meet Dan to pay for all our activities in the north island and then we had an included dinner at the hotel (it wasn’t really great). We all hung out chatting and eating, it was a low key night.Read more