Blood Moon

Hello,

take a look: http://www.stuff.co.nz/science/10588067/Lunar-eclipse-on-tonight

If I had a fancy camera, this is what it would look like

Today there was a lunar eclipse, and New Zealand was the best possible place to see it!

We got lucky enough that there were no clouds, so people gathered around to see the blood moon, someone even brought a telescope!

My shameful version:

At least you can see the colour

A telescope!

Waiting to take look

See you!

North Island VI - Waimangu Volcanic Valley

Kia Ora

Lake Okaro:

Location

This is where we slept after Hobbiton. A really basic campsite near a lake. It was, in my opinion, the coldest night of the trip. I was wearing thermal top, thermal legs, and my sleeping bag is for -1º to -8ºC, and still was a bit cold. 

After breakfast we went for a little walk around the lake:

Kenta and I

Getting ready to leave for the volcanic valley:

We got there and picked The Whole Walk, about 2 hours walking:

And the map for the walk:

Map and GPS track

Ready to go:

Viktoria, Danial, Yeonju, Marie, Kenta, Amalie, and Jesper. I'm taking the picture lol

There were two option on the long route: the normal one, and the "hard" sightseeing one, guess which one we chose:

That was a long way up/down

It was hot and humid, it was a volcanic valley after all:

Inferno Crater Lake - it's blue and it changes hue depending on temperature

We were getting low on energy

I think this was one of our favourite tramps, everyone was kinda excited with the views:

Of course we weren't supposed to be so close...

When the sun was shining the colours were quite impressive:

Jesper having fun

There was also this creepy forest near the end of the track:

Baby black swans

And we reached the end, we got the bus back but we could've also taken a boat ride.

Lake Rotomahana

See ya!