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Nau mai, haere mai. Welcome to Taupo.
This is Taupo. The heart of Aotearoa New Zealand’s beautiful North Island.
At the centre of our region is sparkling Lake Taupo, the great inland sea of New Zealand. As you travel around the lake, you will find every landscape you can imagine. Snow-blanketed winter ski fields and alpine deserts. Ancient forests alive with birdsong. Trout-filled rivers and the thundering Huka Falls. Steaming geothermal valleys with rejuvenating hot springs. Three towering volcanoes in the awesome and otherworldly landscape of Tongariro National Park.
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Right in the heart of this place
What is it to be centred? To be where you want to be. Doing what you want to do. Connected to who and what you love, with all your heart. Come back to the centre. Right in the heart of this place.
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Aroha
Love nature
Love creating
Love creating
Paul Froggatt
Executive chef, Huka LodgeFor nearly 100 years, the Huka Lodge kitchen has fed guests who come from around the world to catch trout in the luminescent blue-green Waikato River beside the luxury lodge. For five years, chef Paul Froggatt has led Huka Lodge’s kitchen.
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Aroha
Love landscapes
Love sculpting
Love sculpting
Lynden Over
Glass artist, Lava GlassGlass artist Lynden Over’s award-winning style is distinctive and striking. Working in front of a roaring furnace, he twists and blends molten canes of coloured glass together in a painterly way, swirling and stippling the colour in layers to create dramatic, weighty glass vessels that are sought-after by collectors around the world.
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Aroha
Love journeys
Love volcanoes
Love volcanoes
Zhi Yuen Yap
Doctor, hiking guide, photographer“They say a photograph tells 1000 words, but for me, a photograph only tells part of the story. When you look at a photograph, you are missing out on the sensation of the area, being out there in the cold and the wind. The satisfying way your crampons stick on the ice. There is a lot that you can never capture in a photograph.”
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