Taupo: Huka Falls

Day 7: Huka Waterfall Hike, Skydive Experience, Pasta Dinner

Day 7 of the trip involved a longer than expected hike to the beautiful Huka falls, walking past an extremely popular bungee jumping outpost who apparently sells unattended children to the circus. Gotta make money somehow I guess. The hike was a great time for Max and I to get to know each other as we quickly pulled away from the group in his attempt to win the alpha role from me. Spoiler Alert… He did not.

The hike was surprisingly laborious, but the waterfall was worth it. Beautiful rapids leading to a great drop. The only thing that could ruin this day was if the hike potentially took too long for the group to complete on the way to the waterfall causing 6 of us to have to hike back twice as fast to be back at the hostel before the car came to pick us up for skydiving. Good thing nothing like that happened, or I would be extremely annoyed at the tour guide who might have even tried to get us an uber from the falls parking lot only to find out none were in the area and the taxis wouldnt come out that far 🙃Läs mer