Lake Taupo is the perfect destination for a family holidays holiday. Having fun here doesn’t cost much when you’ve got swimming, boating, walking, fishing, kayaking and mountain biking at your back door. And if that’s not enough to fill in your day, here’s our guide to some of the best family activities on offer at Lake Taupo.Be an action starDid you ever want to walk the circus high wire or do the flying trapeze? Well now you can at Taupo’s Action World. Here, thanks to their new airbag landing system, you can become a flying trapeze artist or high wire daredevil without a safety harness but still in perfect safety.Does the thought of heights make you tremble at the knees? Not surprising because Action World reports that where children gladly tread, adults fear to follow. So if you feel more at home on terra firma, watch your kids from the safety of the ground while they learn to swing, jump, joust and fly through the air with ease.With a Circus Trapeze, Jungle Swingz where you swing from trapeze-to-trapeze; a jousting pole 3 metres above the ground; a free-climb wall and the Big Air slide, Action World is a fun-filled day of excitement for the whole family.Craters of the Moon Geothermal WalkHere’s a walk with a difference. Named for its moon-like appearance, the Craters of the Moon Geothermal Walk takes you through a cratered valley seething with steam, molten rock and superheated mud. One minute you’re in clear air, the next enveloped in clouds of steam. A series of wooden walkways, purpose built to protect you from the heat, lead to several viewing platforms. Take in the views and marvel at the raw power of nature at its fiery best.Enjoy a two hour cruise on a Steam BoatGet on board the vintage steamer Ernest Kemp and take a two-hour cruise around picturesque Lake Taupo. This wonderful old boat dates back to early last century and has been lovingly restored and painted in classic steam boat colours of red, green and white.You’ll cruise around the bays and beaches closest to Taupo including Acacia Bay and the 10 metre high Maori carvings at Okuta Bay. Kids can get the chance to drive the boat and even get a certificate for doing so. This is a wonderful way to enjoy some of the best scenery Lake Taupo has to offer and loose yourself in the magical history of steam travel.See Trout and catch oneThe Tongariro National Trout Centre, near Turangi is a ‘must visit’ for the whole family and keeps the kids busy for hours. You can learn about everything to do with trout, fishing and New Zealand’s freshwater ecology.High on the agenda are the special children’s fishing days. These are held once a month and kids get the chance to try fly fishing with a guaranteed catch. Their catch is weighed, measured and presented together with a certificate to each child to take home. They will also fillet and smoke their fish on request.Spend a day with farm animalsIf your kids love animals, then they’ll love the Lilliput Fun and Animal Park. Set on 10 acres of farmland, here kids can hand feed over 25 species of animals including ducks, pigs, miniature horses, rabbits, alpacas, geese goats and donkeys. High on the popularity list is the barn where kids can cuddle the park’s baby animals. With wide open spaces, playground activities and lots of places for picnics, this is a great place to spend the day. And for adults, there’s also a cafe for the perfect caffeine fix.The one and only Huka Prawn ParkThere’s nothing like Huka Prawn Park anywhere in New Zealand. Here the geothermal activity in the Taupo area is used to create the perfect warm water conditions to breed and grow tropical prawns.You can tour the hatchery, hand feed baby prawns and let the kids play on the park’s water features. See if they can run the Gauntlet without getting a bucket of water on their heads. But best of all, you can fish all day for prawns and then have your catch cooked at the restaurant free of charge. Imagine a mouth-watering plate of prawns. What a yummy way to spend a day.Being in hot water was never so much funThe geothermal activity in Taupo means where there’s heat, there’s hot water. And, plenty of it! Taupo AC Baths is the ideal all weather destination. With thermally heated warm and hot pools, private thermal mineral pools and hydro slides, kids will keep themselves entertained for hours.The Tokaanu Thermal Pools are at Tokaanu on the southern side of the Lake. These pools have been used by the locals for centuries as a very welcome way to rejuvenate and still delight young and old with their warm soothing, therapeutic water. There’s also a short walk around the pools which takes in some of the geothermal sights of the area.