The Hobbit Filming Location Tour with Hairy Feet Waitomo - New Zealand's Biggest Gap Year
Day 35: Today we are doing a Hobbit Filming Location Tour with Hairy Feet Waitomo in Piopio! Join us in #RealMiddleEarth in New Zealand!
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It’s Day 35 on New Zealand’s BIGGEST Gap Year and today we are hitting the road to Piopio! Here is one of The Hobbit filming locations that got the most screen time in The Hobbit Trilogy.
We arrive at Hairy Feet Waitomo, which is hosting The Hobbit Filming Location Tour around their stunning farmland in Piopio. We get heaps of insights into the behind-the-scenes of The Hobbit Trilogy, as well as take photos with props, and visit several The Hobbit filming locations!
So when backpacking in New Zealand, and you want to visit some Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit filming locations, don’t miss Hairy Feet Waitomo in Piopio!
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New Zealand Biggest Gap Year
365 Days: 365 Activities
This year, Robin and Laura from the online travel guide BackpackerGuide.NZ, are hitting the road for 365 Days doing 365 Activities! We call it New Zealand’s BIGGEST Gap Year! Join us as we travel the whole of New Zealand doing the most epic activities and seeing the most epic places. It’s a true backpacking New Zealand experience you do not want to miss!
Read more about the The Hobbit Filming Location Tour with Hairy Feet Waitomo on New Zealand’s biggest guide for backpackers:
The Road to Taumarunui - New Zealand's Biggest Gap Year – Backpacker Guide New Zealand
Day 36: Today we are road tripping to Taumarunui in the Manawatu-Wanganui region of New Zealand! It’s part of the New Zealand’s Biggest Gap Year web series!
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So today we are leaving Piopio and now delving through a few different districts of New Zealand on this road trip. Unlike our other videos where we are doing 365 Days: 365 Activities, this day brings us nothing but rain but some pretty cool countryside scenery around the Taumarunui area. But don’t worry, we are still doing 365 Days: 365 Activities and we sure as hell will make up for it later! We’ll do a couple of activities in a day if we have to! (Not that we’re complaining). In the meantime, enjoy our nonsense as we travel through the King Country, the Horizons Region and into the Ruapehu district.
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New Zealand Biggest Gap Year
365 Days: 365 Activities
This year, Robin and Laura from the online travel guide BackpackerGuide.NZ, are hitting the road for 365 Days doing 365 Activities! We call it New Zealand’s BIGGEST Gap Year! Join us as we travel the whole of New Zealand doing the most epic activities and seeing the most epic places. It’s a true backpacking New Zealand experience you do not want to miss!
Read more about the The road to Taumarunui on New Zealand’s biggest guide for backpackers:
New Zealand: Milford Sound, Fiordland National Park
Milford Sound (Piopiotahi in Māori) is a fjord in the south west of New Zealand's South Island, within Fiordland National Park and the Te Wahipounamu World Heritage site. It has been judged the world's top travel destination in an international survey and is acclaimed as New Zealand's most famous tourist destination.
Milford Sound is named after Milford Haven in Wales, while the Cleddau River which flows into the sound is also named for its Welsh namesake. The Māori named the sound Piopiotahi after the thrush-like piopio bird, now extinct. Piopiotahi means a single piopio, harking back to the legend of Māui trying to win immortality for mankind - when Maui died in the attempt, a piopio was said to have flown here in mourning.
Milford Sound runs 15 kilometers inland from the Tasman Sea at Dale Point - the mouth of the fiord - and is surrounded by sheer rock faces that rise 1,200 meters (3,900 ft) or more on either side. Among the peaks are The Elephant at 1,517 meters (4,977 ft), said to resemble an elephant's head, and The Lion, 1,302 meters (4,272 ft), in the shape of a crouching lion. Lush rain forests cling precariously to these cliffs, while seals, penguins, and dolphins frequent the waters and whales can be seen sometimes.
Milford Sound sports two permanent waterfalls all year round, Lady Bowen Falls and Stirling Falls. After heavy rain however, many hundreds of temporary waterfalls can be seen running down the steep sided rock faces that line the fiord. They are fed by rain water drenched moss and will last a few days at most once the rain stops.
With a mean annual rainfall of 6,813 mm on 182 days a year, a high level even for the West Coast, Milford Sound is known as the wettest inhabited place in New Zealand and one of the wettest in the world. Rainfall can reach 250 mm during a span of 24 hours. The rainfall creates dozens of temporary waterfalls (as well as a number of major, more permanent ones) cascading down the cliff faces, some reaching a thousand meters in length. Smaller falls from such heights may never reach the bottom of the sound, drifting away in the wind.
Accumulated rainwater can at times cause portions of the rain forest to lose their grip on the sheer cliff faces, resulting in tree avalanches into the sound. The regrowth of the rain forest after these avalanches can be seen in several locations along the sound.
New Zealand Hobbiton & Waitomo Caves Tours (German)
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New Zealand Adventure Day 10 - Larnach Castle + Elephant Rocks
Follow our 12 days South Island Adventure in New Zealand
10th Day Activities
Larnach Castle
Baldwin Street
Moeraki Boulders
Elephant Rocks
New Zealand Auckland Waitomo
Feb. 28, 2011 we arrived in Auckland, New Zealand. This video has photos from there and the Waitomo area on the North Island. Another video coming soon will have photos from other North Island locations.
Tawarau Falls Loop Track (Blue Mushrooms!)
This autumn, I went with Steve from the stelley08 YouTube channel ( to hike the Tawarau Falls Loop Track, in the Tawarau Forest, a beautiful temperate rainforest in the Waitomo District. It is located north of Piopio, east of Marokopa, and west of the Waitomo Caves. Check out his video of our walk too:
We came across amazing ancient limestone features covered in moss, which I can only describe as Tolkien-esque, or a place where children could imagine that gnomes and fairies may live (at least, that is what I would have done as a kid). The forest has a cool and damp climate, and was noticeably colder than the surrounding farmland that we drove through to get there. It has some of the best remaining examples of virgin forest growing in a limestone landscape. The forest is home to many New Zealand birds, native frogs and an exceptional diversity of land snails, although we did not find any. We did however find a few interesting types of fungus, including some examples of the famous New Zealand blue mushroom, known as werewere-kōkako by Tūhoe Māori (Entoloma hochstetteri) and one example of a grey-coloured relative (Entoloma aromaticum), and also a coral fungus of some sort.
From the Appletree Road end and heading to the Tawarau Falls, the track climbs briefly then drops to the Tawarau River. It then runs along the northern bank of the meandering river before crossing a bridge to the south bank. There are three river crossings from this point (which we decided to do in our undies), and you walk through a section of forest where the understory is lush with Prince of Wales feathers fern. A sign marks the entrance to the falls located five or ten minutes off the main track. A chain is in place to aid access to the bottom of the falls. Amazing limestone bluffs, beautiful ferns and the small falls of water along the track make this a memorable place. (Taken from the DOC website).
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Milford Sound Ferry Tour. Part 4.
Milford Sound Ferry Tour. Part 4.
Milford Sound is the most well-known and most accessible of all the fiords in New Zealand's Fiordland National Park, a World Heritage Area. Its 16 kilometre (14 nautical miles) length is lined by sheer rock faces that soar 1,200 metres (3,900 ft) or more from the water. At 1692 metres, the iconic Mitre Peak is a spectacular sight and New Zealand's most photographed mountain.
Milford Sound is in the heart of a rainforest (annual rainfall is 6,813mm or 268 inches) which creates walls of temporary waterfalls on a wet day receding to just two permanent waterfalls (Lady Bowen Falls and Stirling Falls) in drier conditions.
It rains for around a 180 days of the year, with rainfall reaching 250mm (10 in) over a 24 hour period.
The temperature in Milford can vary depending on the season and can go from an average high of around 19C in summer (Dec - Feb) to around 9.5C in winter (Jun - Aug).
Milford Sound is believed to have been discovered by the Maori over 1,000 years ago. They named the sound Piopiotahi after the legend of a single Piopio bird which flew here mourning the death of its partner.
Milford Sound was not discovered by Europeans until 1812 when Captain John Grono named it Milford Haven after his homeland in Wales. Its name was later changed to Milford Sound by Captain John Lort Stokes.
The fiord's natural beauty soon became well known. The Mackinnon Pass was discovered in 1888 and soon became part of the Milford Track -- now one of the world's great.
Milford Sound Ferry Tour. Part 3.
Milford Sound Ferry Tour. Part 3.
Milford Sound is the most well-known and most accessible of all the fiords in New Zealand's Fiordland National Park, a World Heritage Area. Its 16 kilometre (14 nautical miles) length is lined by sheer rock faces that soar 1,200 metres (3,900 ft) or more from the water. At 1692 metres, the iconic Mitre Peak is a spectacular sight and New Zealand's most photographed mountain.
Milford Sound is in the heart of a rainforest (annual rainfall is 6,813mm or 268 inches) which creates walls of temporary waterfalls on a wet day receding to just two permanent waterfalls (Lady Bowen Falls and Stirling Falls) in drier conditions.
It rains for around a 180 days of the year, with rainfall reaching 250mm (10 in) over a 24 hour period.
The temperature in Milford can vary depending on the season and can go from an average high of around 19C in summer (Dec - Feb) to around 9.5C in winter (Jun - Aug).
Milford Sound is believed to have been discovered by the Maori over 1,000 years ago. They named the sound Piopiotahi after the legend of a single Piopio bird which flew here mourning the death of its partner.
Milford Sound was not discovered by Europeans until 1812 when Captain John Grono named it Milford Haven after his homeland in Wales. Its name was later changed to Milford Sound by Captain John Lort Stokes.
The fiord's natural beauty soon became well known. The Mackinnon Pass was discovered in 1888 and soon became part of the Milford Track -- now one of the world's great.