Taupo and Huka Falls

I arrived in Taupo Thursday morning around 10 am, checked into Go Global Backpackers and took a hike to Huka Falls. The falls are on Waikato River which is the longest river in New Zealand. Waikato River is the only drainage for Lake Taupo, a huge crater lake formed thousands of years ago from a super volcano. The river cut into the soft bits of rock but then hit older silicate rock and found cracks and fissures to travel through. Eventually it cut deep enough into the hard bits to reach soft rock again and then collapse to form the tall walls of the river's channel.