Mount Egmont

On our super-quick sightseeing tour of New Zealand, we had to rush from Wellington to Auckland in just over one day. It's not that far, so we managed to squeeze in a huge detour via the Mount Egmont National Park. It was well worth it - the National Park contains one mountain, Mount Egmont (also known as Mount Taranaki). It is a bizarre sight to have one mountain on its own, miles away from any other, sitting there with its top shrouded in cloud and covered in snow. Mount Fuji in Japan was mentioned as another example of a lone mountain. When we come back here, we'll go hiking on the mountain. But for now, we had to be content with looking at it!