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arriving at the hostel in Taupo after not getting on the bus in the morning the hostel had no room for me either! They told me to pop across the road so I did and there was no one at reception of the place. I waited about 20 minutes after looking for someone and finally found the owner who showed me to my room. It was really basic but had a shower and a toilet in the room so that's better than a lot of hostels.
I dumped my stuff and went for a wander. The town was setting up for a huge cycle race the next day so there were cyclists training all over the place and a lot of the roads were closed. Taupo is situated on lake Taupo and it is beautiful. That's where the pic is taken from. The town is busy and nice but after I wandered around and had some lunch I went and sat over the lake drinking wine and reading my book. I headed back to the hostel after a while and arranged to meet Jana and Becky for a drink a bit later. Jana told me all the tales about her skydiving, speaking about it actually convinced me I never want to do it! we were all so shattered we had an early night. I call back through Taupo on my way back north so will definitely spend longer there.
Alarm was set for 6am to river valley, I'll slow down in the South Island so should not have so many early wake up calls which will be a blessing!
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