There is a hike in New Zealand called the Tongariro Crossing. It’s one of the Great Walks of New Zealand and is really spectacular.

While we were travelling across the North Island, we spent a day doing this hike. At the summit of the hike, where you cross the top of the pass, you walk along one edge of the red crater. To get this picture, I handed my camera to Hilary and ran out across to the far side of the crater. Like most pictures, having a person in it shows the size and scale of the landscape.

Besides the Red Crater, there were a ton of other really unique geological and volcanic features along the Tongariro crossing. It was these features and landscapes that made the hike so unique.