This weekend we went to Karangahake. We visited earlier in our tour, it's about 2 hours from Auckland, but hadn't realised before that we needed torches. The reason? You take a fabulous walk over suspension footbridges, through a gorge by a rocky river and there you find the remains of the old Gold Mining Industry. In one set of tunnels there's a cavern where the pumping equipment for the mine used to be. Another is a tunnel where the railway used to take rock from the mine to be processed further downstream. This is really interesting because there are "windows" in the rock face so in some places you can see out. And then finally, the other side of the river is a 1km long tunnel from the old rail link. Really interesting place and fabulously unspoilt - thank god the health and safety police haven't got near it yet or no one would be allowed anywhere near without a hard hat and a guide!!!
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