Mount Taranaki

The main reason we wanted to check out the east coast of NZ was Mount Taranaki. If you look at it on a map, the area surrounding the mountain is almost perfectly circular.

When we arrived (it had been raining for the past few days and was going to rain again in the coming days, but today was a bit of a reprieve), it was sunny enough, though still partly cloudy—unfortunately to the extent that the mountaintop was almost constantly hidden behind clouds.

In the evening, we checked into our Airbnb for the night. A house that could have been charming, but our noses and eyes thought otherwise…Read more