Craig Ford, Taranaki Falls (PEOPLE WILDERNESS 2023)

The impressive Taranaki Falls in the Tongariro National Park, North Island, New Zealand. The walk to Taranaki Falls has an abundance of scenery and ever changing environments ranging from tussock, alpine shrub-land, beech forest and flowing streams. Taranaki Falls cascade over the basalt cliffs of an ancient lava flow which was formed by the Ruapehu eruption over 15,000 years ago.

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