Enchanted Track in Egmont National Park - New Zealand's Biggest Gap Year – BackpackerGuide.NZ
Day 54: Today we are walking the Enchanted Track in Egmont National Park of Mt Taranaki and we can see exactly why they call it “enchanted”...
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It’s Day 54 of New Zealand’s Biggest Gap Year where we’re doing 365 days: 365 activities! Today’s activity is walking the Enchanted Track in Egmont National Park on the slopes of Mt Taranaki!
We drive from Stratford to the forests surrounding the lower slopes of Mt Taranaki, covered in winding dense forests that look like something from a fairy tale. We find out soon enough why they call the walk we go on the Enchanted Track.
The Enchanted Track in Egmont National Park goes through the beautiful forests in a loop joining to other tracks along the way. We are amazed by this awesome wilderness environment right here in the Egmont National Park.
It’s back to the Stratford Holiday Park after doing the Enchated Track of Egmont National Park.
So what do you think of the Enchanted Track in Egmont National Park? Would you add it to your New Zealand bucket list?
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This year we, Robin and Laura the team behind BackpackerGuide.NZ, are challenging ourselves to do 365 Days: 365 Activities and post in a daily travel vlog called New Zealand’s BIGGEST Gap Year every single day! Follow our New Zealand adventure daily on YouTube and on BackpackerGuide.NZ, New Zealand’s biggest resource for backpacking in New Zealand. What’s more, it’s totally free!
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Ngati Ruanui Stratford Mountain House, Stratford, New Zealand, HD Review
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Set within Egmont National Park, Stratford Mountain House offers a sauna, a restaurant and rooms with a spa bath. Surrounded by lovely dense forest and native gardens, the property is perfectly located for scenic walks.
The Stratford Mountain House is 20 minutes’ drive from Stratford’s town centre. Inglewood is 30 minutes’ drive away.
Nearby hiking tracks include a trail 2,1,700 feet above sea level and a popular walk through the ‘Goblin Forest’.
Overlooking the gardens, Mountain House Café and Restaurant is open on Wednesday to Sundays. It offers a wide selection of international cuisine, cooked by top chefs. The bar serves a variety of beer and wine.
All rooms feature a forest views, a flat-screen TV, a desk and a wardrobe. Each includes tea/coffee making facilities and electric blankets.
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Tsingy de Bemaraha is a national park in Madagascar which offers some of the most amazing natural landscapes in the world. The limestone seabed rose to create a plateau around 200 million years ago, which was little by little eroded by heavy rainfalls until it became the shape it is today.
Tsingy is the Malagasy word for `walking on tiptoes` and this national park justifies its name perfectly with its nearly impenetrable labyrinth of limestone spikes. The Tsingy de Bemaraha World Heritage Site became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1990.
Some of the rock formations tower up to 100 meters (328 feet).
But these spikes are not just spectacular to look at, they are also a home to a great number of endemic species who have adapted well to this relief. Most expeditions to the area find a plant or animal previously undescribed by science.
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Beppu Onsen (Beppu Hot Springs) is a group of hot springs in Beppu, Oita in Japan. This city contains more than 2500 hot springs all grouped in eight major hot spring areas called Beppu Hatto.
These represent more than 10% of hot springs in Japan and statistic show that 130,000 tons of discharge is released each day which is only second to the amount of discharge being released daily from hot springs in Yellowstone National Park.
The most famous attraction of Beppu are the `Eight Hells`, eight hot springs where water temperature gushes out sometimes at 150 C, and at different colors.
For example, Umi-Jigoku has a lovely cobalt blue color, but is boiling at 98 C. Kamado-Jigoku is flaming red, and then there is Oniyama-Jigoku which hosts about 80 alligators.
Shiraike-Jigoku is milky green, resembling a Japanese zen garden. Tatsumaki-Jigoku has a spout that can reach 50 meters without the stone plate blocking it, but it`s also the hottest at 150 C and so on. Every hot spring is unique and different.
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Wat Rong Khun, better known as the White Temple is a contemporary, privately owned art exhibit in the style of Buddhist temple, designed, constructed and opened for public in 1997 by Chalermchai Kositpipat.
In the late 20th century the original Wat Rong Khun was in a pretty awful state and there were no funds for repairs to be made, so a local artist from Chiang Rai completely rebuilt it with his own money. The artist intends for the space around the temple to be a center of learning and meditation
When completed, the White Temple compound will have nine buildings, including the existing ubosot, a hall of relics, a meditation hall, an art gallery, and living quarters for monks.
Murals in the Ubosot depict demon faces but also celebrities like Michael Jackson, Neo (Matrix), Freddy Krueger and Terminator along with images depicting how humanity is destroying the earth by exploiting its resources, warfare and terrorist attacks.
There is also a presence of Harry Potter, Superman and Hello Kitty which confuse the message somewhat.
8.Goblin Forest, New Zealand
Pembroke Road from the Taranaki town of Stratford lead to the area of Mount Taranaki known as East Egmont. Many walks begin here, but many visitors come exclusively to walk through the Goblin Forest, also known as the Kamahi Walk.
This forest looks like a scene from a fantasy movie. It is primarily kamahi trees which began life perched on the trunks of other trees. Their trunks and branches have grown through and around the existing trees, creating the distinctive twisted forest. Hanging mosses, liverworts and ferns have added to the strange effect.
Mt. Taranaki is an active, but a quiescent volcano located in the Taranaki region on the west coast of New Zealand`s North Island. Egmont Park has thirteen entrances so this mountain is sometimes called `most climbed mountain` as it`s so accessible.
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【NZ Track】Wilkies Pools Loop Track, Mount Taranaki
Wilkies Pools Loop Track located in Egmount National Park, North Island, New Zealand
Length of Track: 2 - 3km, about 1 - 1.5 hours
Difficulty: Easy/Moderate
There are a lot of tracking in Egmount National Park for you to see Mount Taranaki around. For this park, what surprise us the most is when we were driving to the Park through a goblin forest, which made us feel amazing and excited.
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Wilkies Pools & Dawson Falls, Egmont National Park - New Zealand's Biggest Gap Year
Day 50: Today is the first day with our WWOOF family and we’re heading to the beautiful Wilkies Pools and Dawson Falls in Egmont National Park.
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Today is the first day we are spending with our WWOOFing family here in Taranaki. They are keen to show us the wild and wonderful Egmont National Park on the slope of Mt Taranaki.
We head to the Dawson Falls Visitor Centre where we start our first walk in the Egmont National Park, the Wilkies Pools Loop Track. We make our way through beautiful forest to the Wilkies Pools made of super clear water.
After playing games of hide and seek on the way back with the kids, we then move onto our next walk of the day to Dawson Falls in the Egmont National Park. This is a short walk through the forest down to an epic long-drop waterfall tumbling into the rock pools below.
Now we head from the Egmont National Park back to the farm where Robin is helping our WWOOF hose do some farm chores.
So what do you think of Wilikies Pools and Dawson Falls? Are they places you would go in the Egmont National Park?
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00:16:37 1.5 First World War
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00:32:08 1.8 Retirement and later years
00:34:30 1.9 Final years
00:36:49 2 Views
00:40:03 2.1 Religion
00:41:22 2.2 Politics and race
00:41:32 2.2.1 Anti-communism
00:42:25 2.2.2 Opposition to National Socialism
00:45:05 2.2.3 Total war
00:47:19 2.3 Nature
00:48:01 3 Writing
00:48:32 3.1 Influences
00:48:41 3.1.1 British adventure stories
00:50:26 3.1.2 European mythology
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01:19:08 5 Artwork
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01:22:48 6.1.1 Film adaptations
01:25:54 6.1.2 Television
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01:30:45 6.3 Commemorative plaques
01:31:57 6.4 Artwork
01:32:24 6.5 Autographs
01:33:07 6.6 Canonization process
01:34:13 7 See also
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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (; 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and academic, who is best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.
He served as the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, from 1925 to 1945 and Merton Professor of English Language and Literature and Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, from 1945 to 1959. He was at one time a close friend of C. S. Lewis—they were both members of the informal literary discussion group known as the Inklings. Tolkien was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II on 28 March 1972.
After Tolkien's death, his son Christopher published a series of works based on his father's extensive notes and unpublished manuscripts, including The Silmarillion. These, together with The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, form a connected body of tales, poems, fictional histories, invented languages, and literary essays about a fantasy world called Arda and Middle-earth within it. Between 1951 and 1955, Tolkien applied the term legendarium to the larger part of these writings.While many other authors had published works of fantasy before Tolkien, the great success of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings led directly to a popular resurgence of the genre. This has caused Tolkien to be popularly identified as the father of modern fantasy literature—or, more precisely, of high fantasy. In 2008, The Times ranked him sixth on a list of The 50 greatest British writers since 1945. Forbes ranked him the fifth top-earning dead celebrity in 2009.