Friday, May 28, 2010

New Zealand: Mt. Maunganui - Hike for sunrise!

Scared me!

I never had only 12 people view on my blog per day, i mean, so LESS!

This urge me to update my blog more often, otherwise i will have no readers =(. Although i'm hell sleepy right now, i slept less last night because of the gatherine (will be in the next update).

OKAY!

My offday is in every Sunday, only one offday in a week and this is the only day that i could sleep until whenever i like. But in last Sunday, i woke by 5am, which is earlier than working day! Just for rush to the peak of the mountain before the sun does.

Visited Mt. Maunganui for the second time. The first time for the sunset, and the second time for sunrise with Sun. Woke up by 5am, got out from home by 530am, the weather forecast showed the first light was 645am, 45 minutes to the peak was more than enough, we thought.

We also thought there will be crowdy 'cause Mt. Mauganui is famous with sunrise / sunset viewing, but when we reached there, there were NO CAR, NO PEOPLE, NO ENTRANCE OPEN!!!!

But the slide door is open, Sun and I looking at each other for a while, dilemma if we should step into the horrible jungle track.

We stepped in finally, 'cause both of us don't wanna got up so early for nothing.



There are no photos on the jungle track, 'cause you can see nothing, just dark, and dark, and very dark.

We missed a turn to go to the track that lead to peak before sunrise, so no sunrise viewing in the peak, but seaside of the sunrise direction, which made Sun and I cant help taking photo non-stop!

I took like 50 + photos on the sunrising itself, i choose the best among 'em to upload here, of course, as i always said, the best photo always in your memory, but not the photo.














We suppose to go back home after sunrise, but we haven't hike to the peak yet! So Sun and I decided to hike up to the peak even though the sun is already risen.











We took another track than the first track i hiked with Will and Hoe. I would say the second track is nicer, in term of the view and it is easier to hike, but you might have to spend more time.

We took 4 hours for viewing sunrise, hike up to the peak and got back to our car, our legs were sore and shaking all the way got back from the peak, this is exhausted! I look so pile after the whole hiking section, as below photo!

But its worth, really worth to woke up early and spend my holiday by hiking, but not doing nothing but sitting in front of computer update myself with new drama or song, this is completely no different with what i done in Malaysia.

Once again i touched by the natural of NZ, which i could never seen in Malaysia. FYI NZ is the first country of the world to seen the sunrise, and how lucky i am could stand on the kiwi land, and seeing the sun rising before other people in the world does.

No word or photo in this world could tell how nice of the view exactly, you just have to come here and feel it. I did, and how bout you?


The Blogger, on the peak of Mt. Maunganui







Tauranga, NZ
20100527, 0923pm
Rach in feel so heaty mood. =(

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