I recently walked the Tongariro Northern Circuit in New Zealand and I thought I'd put up some photos.
All photos taken with a 6D + 24-70 f/4L IS.
For those interested in the walk, it is about 45 km and the circuit starts and finishes in Whakapapa Village. Basically, you walk around Mt Ngauruhoe (Mt Doom in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings movies). Most of the walking is fairly easy but the part of the track called the Tongariro Crossing (where you cross the saddle between Mt Ngauruhoe and Mt Tongariro) is tougher - you're going up for a while! Many people do just the Tongariro Crossing as a day walk - a bus will take you to the bottom on one side, you walk over and get picked up by a bus on the other.
We did the Northern Circuit over four days (there are three huts/campsites along the way and we stayed a night in each) although you can do it in two if you want to. (I haven't checked to see if anyone has ever done it in one day.) The campsites have untreated water, toilets and some gas cookers, but that's about it for the luxuries!
Mt Ngauruhoe sits between Mt Ruhapeu (the snow-capped mountain in the photos) and Mt Tongariro, and all are active volcanoes. Well, I understand that technically Mt Ngauruhoe and Mt Tongariro are one volcano, but they are separate peaks.
All photos taken with a 6D + 24-70 f/4L IS.
For those interested in the walk, it is about 45 km and the circuit starts and finishes in Whakapapa Village. Basically, you walk around Mt Ngauruhoe (Mt Doom in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings movies). Most of the walking is fairly easy but the part of the track called the Tongariro Crossing (where you cross the saddle between Mt Ngauruhoe and Mt Tongariro) is tougher - you're going up for a while! Many people do just the Tongariro Crossing as a day walk - a bus will take you to the bottom on one side, you walk over and get picked up by a bus on the other.
We did the Northern Circuit over four days (there are three huts/campsites along the way and we stayed a night in each) although you can do it in two if you want to. (I haven't checked to see if anyone has ever done it in one day.) The campsites have untreated water, toilets and some gas cookers, but that's about it for the luxuries!
Mt Ngauruhoe sits between Mt Ruhapeu (the snow-capped mountain in the photos) and Mt Tongariro, and all are active volcanoes. Well, I understand that technically Mt Ngauruhoe and Mt Tongariro are one volcano, but they are separate peaks.