Te Aroha — Local services in North Island

Took me 4.5 hours in total to go up and down. I was slow tho. Better to take some food and water but you could fill up ur water bottle from a stream somewhere in the middle of the orange track. Wear hiking shoes coz the road is quite rough and steep, sometimes need to climb with hands. Nice and interesting experience. A hot spring after that would...

This little town is just magical I love this town I would move there if I had a job that was waiting for me but just love walking the main street into the small little stores going for coffee and the restaurant above the domain it's just a delightful little town oh and the mineral spa just out...

Some people ask why I would ride to the top of this mountain. My reply is because it was there. A tough climb up the road and was hoping the reward was the view, but no, the last 30m vertical was covered in fast moving cloud, so no reward. Might have to do it again on...