Turangi

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Turangi is located at the southern end of Lake Taupo in the of North Island, New Zealand. Turangi is 40 minutes drive south of Taupo and a 40 minute drive to Mount Ruapehu.

Turangi is on the banks of the Tongariro River Lake which makes Turangi are perfect place for fly fishing and water based activities. Turangi and its surrounding countryside offers hunting, fishing, mountain biking, hiking or bush walks, white water rafting, kayaking, sightseeing and much more.

Turangi is the ideal base for excursions into the Tongariro National Park, Kaimanawa Forest Park, and Pureroa Forest Park. Several small picturesque places are close by. Kuratau, Omori, Pukawa and Whareroa are lakeside settlements a short drive off the Western Bays Highway, while other delightfully situated villages from Motuoapa to Hatepe are passed on State Highway 1 driving north from Turangi to Taupo. Well worth a visit is historic Tokaanu with its thermal activity pools and power station.

Turangi History

The area was settled by the Ngati Tuwharetoa, descendants of those who had originally settled in the Kawerau area. The major Tuwharetoa migration happened from about the 16th Century with a war party under command of Turangitukua who engaged in a number of battles against earlier residents of the Taupo, Rotoaira and Kaimanawa area.

The first Europeans reached the Turangi area in the 1830s however it was not until the 1850s that European settlement took place with the construction of a Mission Station at Pukawa.

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