The Waikato River, New Zealand’s longest river, moves gracefully north from Lake Taupō between banks 100 metres apart. Just before the Huka Falls, the river enters a shallow ravine of hard volcanic rock. The effect is nature’s large-scale equivalent of a fire hose feeding into a very fine nozzle.

This causes over 200,000 liters of water to gush through causing amazing rapids and beautiful falls.

At Huka Falls you can witness the phenomenon of natural hydro power with more than 220,000 litres of water per sec barreling over 11meter high waterfall.

It is simply beautiful and awe inspiring to see the rapids come from a serene lake and end in an equally peaceful river.

I simply could not get enough of this stunning sight.  The falls are only 11 meters high but the mere fact that the water is moving at such a rapid pace takes your breath away.

There is a short, well marked trail that is well protected by high railings.  We enjoyed the spectacular views and light mist that dusted our faces.  As we were leaving the parking lot we found another little trail that took us lower and closer to the falls.  It gave us a great view of the falls.

I highly recommend a visit to the Huka Falls are they are as impressive as they are beautiful.

Events from this blog post occurred in Mid-March.  Our blog posts run 10-12 weeks behind live events.  Did you catch our last blog post where we visit the Craters of the Moon?