On the road to Turangi

Hi, it's Cinnamon!

In this post and the next one I will show you some places I visited on my trip to Turangi where the dog dancing summer camp was held.

As Turangi is well over a four-hour drive away from Auckland where we live, we made a couple of stops on the way. The place we stopped at for a lunch break is called Matamata, one of the sites where the famous trilogy "The Lord of the Rings" had been filmed.

My humans had been to the town to join a tour to visit an actual filming site a long time ago (The rolling hill is a private property, so you have to join a tour to visit there). This time we didn't visit the filming site, but we found something that you can feel some atmosphere of the film from.




We had a short walk under tall trees by the carpark next to the Visitor Information Centre. Those trees would have offered us a nice shelter from the sun, if the sky had been clear of the cloud.



A while after we hit the road again, I found a strange doggy monster in a town called Tirau. Dad told me that it is the Visitor Information Centre. Then, right after that, a sheep monster!!




The last stop was at Huka Falls. Look at this! I couldn't keep watching it, because I felt like I was about to be swallowed!!




After leaving Huka Falls, we drove along a huge lake called Lake Taupo and finally arrived at Turangi. It was the longest drive I had ever done, but I enjoyed all the way, watching the changing scenery!