All aboard Kiwi Rail's Northern Explorer

We boarded the train in Wellington for the scenic trip up the center of the northern island to Auckland. We will stop for 2 nights en rte at Mt Tongariro National Park, NZ's first and the world's 4th national park.





We crossed several large concrete viaducts as we travelled first along the coast, then farmlands and finally climbed into the mountains.



Mt Ruhapehu is the highest and most active of the park's volcanoes. Over the past few years it has had several eruptions.



The conical mtn is Mt Ngauruhoe, much younger than Mt Ruapehu and Mt Tongariro to the multipeaked mountain to the left.






We are approaching National Park Station, our destination.


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