Wairakei Thermal Valley Camping

Wairakei is a small settlement and geothermal area 8-kilometres north of Taupō, in the centre of the North Island of New Zealand, on the Waikato River. It is part of the Taupō Volcanic Zone and features several natural geysers, hot pools, boiling mud pools, and the Wairakei Power Station, a major geothermal electric power generating station.

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Huka Falls is a set of waterfalls on the Waikato River, which drains Lake Taupō in New Zealand.

Owen Delany Park is a multi-purpose sports stadium in Taupō, New Zealand. The main sports played there are rugby and cricket, although several other sports are accommodated on a permanent basis and numerous other events on a one-off basis.

Taupō Central is the central suburb and business district of Taupō in the Waikato region of New Zealand's North Island. An eight-storey hotel was proposed in the CBD in 2018. It would have been Taupō's tallest building. As the council had a three-storey limit at that time, consent required a decision by the Environment Court, which allowed a six-storey building in June 2020. The hotel was still u

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Craters of the Moon Thermal Area is a region with geothermal activity north of Taupō, New Zealand. It is a part of Wairakei, the largest geothermal field in New Zealand, with a surface area of about 25 km2, which lies in the Taupō Volcanic Zone. The name springs from the many hydrothermal eruption craters, which are in part barren and which have bright colours. Combined with the numerous steam ven