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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Teams podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks.

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Speaker 2: At B and Travel Corresponded. Mike Yardley is here today,

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Speaker 2: Kelder Mike.

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Speaker 3: Gold to Jack, what do you reckon? We're going to

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Speaker 3: knock over India tomorrow night.

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Speaker 2: Oh yes, no, but I am anxious about not having

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Speaker 2: met Henry. I'm really anxious about Henry. If we have

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Speaker 2: no met Henry, I think it's a very tricky. Indeed, God,

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Speaker 2: I would love to see it though. It's just all on.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's all in the Indians favorite at the moment,

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Speaker 2: isn't it being in? You know, it does feel it

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Speaker 2: does feel a bit rigged. And you know, when you

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Speaker 2: have a population of coming on two billion versus a

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Speaker 2: population of just over five million, it's like, wow, come on.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, no, I'll be I'll be gladly volunteering for

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Speaker 2: the night shift tomorrow night at our place so I

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Speaker 2: can see that. Can't wait for them. Yeah, very excellent.

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Speaker 2: Ten o'clock, I think is first ball name for the

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Speaker 2: ICC Champions Trophy Final. Anyway, we're focusing this morning on

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Speaker 2: a few autumn in the Ruapehu district and the region

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Speaker 2: kind of has outdoorsy adventures for all seasons.

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Speaker 3: A.

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Speaker 4: No doubt about it, Jack, And before the ski bunnies

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Speaker 4: rock into town. I think autumn is a fantastic time

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Speaker 4: to explore the National park because the some crowds have

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Speaker 4: thinned out yet the weather is still really agreeable. So

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Speaker 4: if you want to take a really good romp up

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Speaker 4: Mount Ruapeir, who jump on that skywalker from fucka Papa

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Speaker 4: Village and check out the mountain trails because there are

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Speaker 4: about ten kilometers of designated trailers around the higher reaches

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Speaker 4: of the mountain, and at this time of year it

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Speaker 4: is such a great chance to admire the dramatic terrain,

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Speaker 4: that mash up of volcanic rock and Parmesan scoria before

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Speaker 4: the winter snowcoat arrives.

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Speaker 3: So you do it over the next couple of months.

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Speaker 2: What altitude does the skywalker climb to?

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Speaker 4: Two thy twenty meters? So it's a true alpine gondola.

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Speaker 4: Often admired the Swiss and their engineering audacity, you know,

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Speaker 4: with the various cable car systems, but this really is

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Speaker 4: sort of projecting that same sense of sheer can do

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Speaker 4: gall and it's actually a whopping ride. It takes a

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Speaker 4: distance of about two kilometers to get from the base

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Speaker 4: station up to Nolridge Chalet at the top. So it's

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Speaker 4: a massive gondola system and if you do take a

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Speaker 4: ride before the end of April, this is the Cherry

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Speaker 4: on Top jack at Noleridge Shelley. They are serving New

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Speaker 4: Zealand's highest high tea. So what could be better than

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Speaker 4: just scoffing on a teared stand of tasty morsels as

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Speaker 4: you overlook the pinnacles up top of the mountain.

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Speaker 2: At two thousand meters as well. So that's yeah, that's impressive.

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Speaker 2: If you go a bit love then further blow in

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Speaker 2: the national Park. What short walks would you recommend?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, when obviously a couple of weeks ago we were

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Speaker 4: a lot of hikers actually just checking out all the

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Speaker 4: different walks, But I reckon the pick of the bunch

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Speaker 4: is the Tofi Falls Walk because it's very family friendly

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Speaker 4: and you get such a great little slice of mountain forest,

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Speaker 4: all that tour tour and beach forest on the trail

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Speaker 4: making your way to that waterfall tumbling over the edge

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Speaker 4: of an ancient lava flow. And of course for movie

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Speaker 4: fans it's a go to because it was one of

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Speaker 4: the two waterfalls used in Lord of the Rings that

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Speaker 4: depicted golumn fishing. Now the track, the Tofie Falls track

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Speaker 4: that starts close to the chateau, and I have to say, Jack,

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Speaker 4: it was so sad to see it in such a sorry,

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Speaker 4: mothballed state. The word is, though, and several locals said

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Speaker 4: this to me a couple of weeks ago. The word

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Speaker 4: is A certain billionaire is current currently in negotiations to

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Speaker 4: breathe new life into that Grand Lady, I hasten to add,

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Speaker 4: it's an Irish billionaire, not a Canadian this time.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Oh what's the space though? Okay, if you're looking

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Speaker 2: for a bigger kind of day hike, what would.

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Speaker 4: You recom Well, I've just knocked off the two Papakura

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Speaker 4: Falls walk for the first time. So this is on

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Speaker 4: Fish's Road, just out of National Park Village, and you've

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Speaker 4: got two choices. Really, It begins with a very easy

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Speaker 4: twenty minute walk to the Tartanaki Lookout. The reason it's

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Speaker 4: called that is because you get this very unique perspective.

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Speaker 4: You can see Mount Tartanaki and Mount Ruapehu from the

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Speaker 4: same spot, which is pretty cool. But keep going because

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Speaker 4: beyond the lookout the trail becomes a backcountry adventure track

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Speaker 4: through the magnificent Urua forest.

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Speaker 3: The whole walk will take about four hours.

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Speaker 4: To complete, but you just see so many native trees

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Speaker 4: in that forest and the sweep reward right at the end,

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Speaker 4: the sparkling lookout on the very long drop of the

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Speaker 4: two Papakurra falls.

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Speaker 3: Do it?

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Speaker 2: Hey, what's attracting the crowds to or Fungal.

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Speaker 4: Yes, Orfungo is home to the orhennatong A Scenic Reserve

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Speaker 4: and this is such a gem this place because it

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Speaker 4: was about a decade ago that the local residents of

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Speaker 4: or Fungo banded together to bring the BirdLife back to

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Speaker 4: this unlogged native pottercar forest. The predators had gone killed

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Speaker 4: the birds, so they decided to kill the predators and

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Speaker 4: they've sent them packing. So it's now also one of

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Speaker 4: our national Kiwi Centuries. It is home to a burgeoning

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Speaker 4: population of native birdies and you've got this fantastic loop

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Speaker 4: track around the reserve, which is just the ultimate in

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Speaker 4: forest bathing. I gave a massive six hundred year old

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Speaker 4: tottter a tree a fresh hug. I had given them

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Speaker 4: a hug four years ago, and I thought this tall

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Speaker 4: boy needs a fresh hug. Yes, I'm still a very

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Speaker 4: absolutely I am still a happy little tree hugger.

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Speaker 2: Ah that's nice.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Well, and for something kind of curious and quirky close

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Speaker 2: to Hakun, tell us about the car graveyard.

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Speaker 4: For a dose of plastic Keviana. This is just so cool.

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Speaker 4: So it's Horipito Motors. And this is the place that

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Speaker 4: featured in both Smash Palace and Goodbye pork Pie. In fact,

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Speaker 4: the business is nicknamed Smash Palace, so you can see

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Speaker 4: all of the film and abilia there. But check out

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Speaker 4: the vast a car graveyard because this place is the

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Speaker 4: biggest vintage car dismantling operation in Australasia.

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Speaker 3: It's like this.

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Speaker 4: Enormous op shop for old cars and a lot of

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Speaker 4: the parts shipped all over the world.

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Speaker 3: Truly quirky.

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Speaker 2: And is it like like it looks nice, it's not.

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Speaker 2: It's not like it's a giant dump or anything.

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Speaker 3: No, it's sort of orderly.

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, I get it nice, orderly and rustic. Yes, okay,

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Speaker 2: you go quite literally, I suppose. So that sounds cool.

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Speaker 2: I like that. I like a off the beating track

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Speaker 2: kind of Okay, thank you very much. Sir, that sounds great.

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