| rdfs:comment
| - Taupo is a town on the northeast of Lake Taupo. lake taupo a long time ago was once a mountain but it erupted and became a lake. taupo has motels and parks along Huka Falls such as huka prawn park and motels such as taupo de bretts and a museum.
- Taupo is a quiet bathing resort on the banks of Lake Taupo, situated in the Central Plateau, in the heart of North Island. The area is a zone of intense volcanic activity, even if the most violent eruptions are just a mere memory and date back to over 2, 000 years ago. The volcanoes are however still active, but their destructive force has greatly reduced. In spite of this fact, they are still capable of offering the visitor wonderful, natural displays. Mt. Ruapehu is among one of the many volcanoes, whose eruptions produce vapour, ash and rock.
|
| abstract
| - Taupo is a town on the northeast of Lake Taupo. lake taupo a long time ago was once a mountain but it erupted and became a lake. taupo has motels and parks along Huka Falls such as huka prawn park and motels such as taupo de bretts and a museum.
- Taupo is a quiet bathing resort on the banks of Lake Taupo, situated in the Central Plateau, in the heart of North Island. The area is a zone of intense volcanic activity, even if the most violent eruptions are just a mere memory and date back to over 2, 000 years ago. The volcanoes are however still active, but their destructive force has greatly reduced. In spite of this fact, they are still capable of offering the visitor wonderful, natural displays. Mt. Ruapehu is among one of the many volcanoes, whose eruptions produce vapour, ash and rock. Taupo is the main town in the area. Although for centuries the site of Maori tribes and visited for the first time by Europeans in 1840, the obstacles posed by nature, the poverty of the soil and the rigid cold winters, have been responsible for a development rate slower than in other areas of New Zealand. Only in the last ten years, thanks to an intensive hydro-electricity project, a bettering of agricultural methods and the establishment of an efficient road system, has Taupo seen real and consistent growth. At the same time Taupo has experienced the rewards of such physical and financial investment, growing to become a leading tourist attraction in the area. Today Taupo is the capital of the trout fishing world, thanks to the presence of the largest still-water lake in the Australian hemisphere. The lake is home to trout of extraordinary proportions. For the thrill-seekers Taupo does not lack the possibility of practising adventure and extreme sports including rafting, bungee jumping, paragliding and tandem skydiving. It is necessary to note that even though the town is of relatively small dimensions, a true public transport system doesn’t exist. Two taxi companies, together with a shuttle service, operate a service between the area’s main sights, at a reasonable price.
|
![[RDF Data]](/fct/images/sw-rdf-blue.png)