{"id":3034,"date":"2025-12-30T23:43:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T12:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carmendownunder.nl\/?p=3034"},"modified":"2026-01-02T02:01:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T15:01:18","slug":"taranaki-bergwandeling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carmendownunder.nl\/en\/2025\/12\/30\/taranaki-bergwandeling\/","title":{"rendered":"Taranaki mountain walk.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took a van from the eco-hostel to the North Egmont Visitor Centre. That&#039;s where the 25km Pouakai Circuit on Mount Taranaki starts. It&#039;s a 2-3 day hike, and I&#039;m going to split it into three. It&#039;s 7.5km to Holly Hut, 4.5km to Pouakai Hut, and then a 13km return walk. All neat paths and bridges over rivers. Hmm, sometimes...but not always.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The photo above is from the website, in good weather. The weather doesn&#039;t look great for me in the coming days: 13 degrees Celsius, rain showers, strong winds of 65 km\/h, and possible thunderstorms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"651\" height=\"571\" src=\"https:\/\/carmendownunder.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/taranaki.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3037\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carmendownunder.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/taranaki.png 651w, https:\/\/carmendownunder.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/taranaki-300x263.png 300w, https:\/\/carmendownunder.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/taranaki-14x12.png 14w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 651px) 100vw, 651px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The huts are basic, with basic services: a wood-burning stove, rainwater (not drinking water, so boil\/purify it first), and bunk beds\u2014so bring your own sleeping bag. And food for three days. Oh yeah, and no Wi-Fi; maybe there&#039;s 3G, otherwise it&#039;s off the grid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>30-12-2025, 6 p.m.: First report from the mountains, near hut 2 (Pouakai)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/carmendownunder.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/taranaki-dag1.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Hello!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope this sends, but I&#039;m still alive. Woohoo! It was raining, but it&#039;s dry now, and it&#039;s raining and it&#039;s dry and it&#039;s raining and it&#039;s dry. Now it&#039;s dry, just now it was raining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I didn&#039;t go to Holly Hut because the shuttle guy said pickup [the day after tomorrow] is at 3 a.m., not 5 a.m. And 3 a.m. is pretty early, because the 4-hour trek to Holly Hut took me 6 hours with this *thick* backpack. I think it&#039;s about 18 kg or so. Because it was 14 kg at first, but that was without all the water and the stuff. So it&#039;s possible it&#039;s 18 kg. And then I have a tote bag, so it&#039;s heavy stuff. But I didn&#039;t go to Holly Hut because the third day is the longest. I think it&#039;s about 7 hours, they said. I thought it was 5 to 7 or 7 to 9, I can&#039;t remember. But yeah, if I just take one and a half times as long, I&#039;ll already be up, I don&#039;t know, 10 hours or so. And it&#039;s still dark at 5 a.m., and I&#039;m not getting up at 4 a.m. No, I just refuse to do that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I walk on to the Puakai Hut. The woman at the visitor center said if the river to the Holly Hut gets too high from rain, they shouldn&#039;t walk through it, which is possible after a lot of rain. There were two other people there, and they came back and said, yes, the river was up to half my thighs, so that&#039;s quite high. I think it&#039;s dry now. But I thought, it&#039;s an extra two hours to the Puakai Hut, and it was about 4 o&#039;clock when I got to the Holly Hut. It&#039;s 6 o&#039;clock now, so I&#039;m not there yet. I&#039;m taking a few breaks because my back is cracking and breaking, and, well, it&#039;s not cracking, but ouch. The woman said there were all these cancellations due to the weather, so there&#039;s room at the Puakai Hut. Otherwise, if there&#039;s no room, I&#039;ll just tell those people, can I please please please just sleep here? I don&#039;t even need a bed. I have my mat. I just need the ground. Is that okay? Thank you, thank you, thank you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then I can just take my time tomorrow, either the second or the last trip. And then yes, I&#039;ll be at the visitor center a day earlier, but there&#039;s a campground there. So I can celebrate New Year&#039;s at that campground. Yes, I&#039;d actually prefer New Year&#039;s in New Plymouth, but I&#039;m not going to catch that 3 a.m. shuttle. It just won&#039;t work. I don&#039;t know how they came up with that, because then you&#039;d have to leave in the middle of the night. Or walk at a ridiculous pace, but with 18 kg on my back, it&#039;s a bit heavy, isn&#039;t it? So yeah, that. Small update. But I&#039;m going to move on, I think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bye!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>A nice, varied trail, sometimes smooth, sometimes rocky. 44 steps along the way, which is great for a 19 kg backpack.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"pgc-sgb-cb wp-block-pgcsimplygalleryblock-masonry\" data-gallery-id=\"2b501839\"><div class=\"sgb-preloader\" id=\"pr_2b501839\">\n\t<div class=\"sgb-square\" style=\"background:#d4d4d4\"><\/div>\n\t<div class=\"sgb-square\" style=\"background:#d4d4d4\"><\/div>\n\t<div class=\"sgb-square\" style=\"background:#d4d4d4\"><\/div>\n\t<div class=\"sgb-square\" style=\"background:#d4d4d4\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"simply-gallery-amp pgc_sgb_slider\" style=\"display: none;\"><div class=\"sgb-gallery\"><div class=\"sgb-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carmendownunder.nl\/2025\/12\/30\/taranaki-bergwandeling\/img-20251229-wa0020\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" 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