How lucky we were the following morning, blue sky and no clouds meant all three volcanoes were now visible rather than swathed in cloud. This is the view to Ngauruhoe from just outside our motel room. This is the most perfect shaped volcano of the three.
Whilst this is a shot of Tongariro to the left and Ngauruhoe. The fit and adventurous can attempt the one day crossing of Tongariro - maybe one day...
As the weather was so clear, we headed up the mountain road to get better views of Ruapehu. This is the only mountain that is commercially used for skiing, though now in summer it is walkers that frequent the area.
We could also see across to Mt Taranaki way over on the west coast of the North Island - often used as a stand in for Mt Fuji in several movies.
On check out, we were told how fortunate we had been - they don't have many clear days like this at this time of the year.
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