This week I'm in Taupo, in the middle of New Zealand's North Island, and when I woke up this morning I looked across Lake Taupo to the three active volcanoes that sit on the other side of the water.
Lake Taupo, which is actually the crater of a great volcano that exploded many centuries ago, and it is so big that the island of Singapore could float on the water and not touch the shore.
The three great volcanoes - Mt Ruapehu, Mt Ngauruhoe and Mt Tongariro -- sit in Tongariro National Park which is also one of the United Nation's World Heritage Sites and it's an easy 90 minute drive from Taupo around the lake to the peaks.