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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 13, Issue 8 (November 1, 1938)

A Grand Circle Route

A Grand Circle Route.

To return to the route: It is a magnificent excursion, this Kaingaroa-Rangitaiki-Lakeland journey. Easily in one day, from Rotorua, you traverse the gateway of the volcano gods at Waiotapu and Rainbow Mountain (the Maori Maunga-Kakaramea), the great new Forest of the Kaingaroa, the riverside road with its thrilling moments, and the return way to Rotorua, skirting the three lakes of the woods, Rotoma, Rotoehu and Rotoiti. You see that most wonderful of old volcanoes, Putauaki (Mt. Edgecumbe), springing powerful from the plain; it is a more boldly-cut mountain than even Ngauruhoe. You drive along Hongi's Track, bush avenue of beauty and poetic folk-lore, with its tapu tree—Hinehopu. There is no more wonderful round-route drive in all New Zealand. But mind your steering!