Hell's Gate - Tikitere Rotorua

351 State Hwy 30, Tikitere Rotorua , North Island, New Zealand - Phone: 64 7 345 3151

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  • Feeling itchy!

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    emilyr.home 26 contributions United Kingdom Nov 8, 2011

    We were dissapointed that despite paying $77 each, it cost extra to walk near the geothermal features. The mud bath only had a few centimetres of mud in the bottom and we kept finding pieces of grit and other people's hairs! The sulphur pool was quite relaxing but for the next few days I was extremely itchy and came up in inflamed red blotches. Even my eyelids swelled up and I hadn't put my face near the mud or water!

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    Rolling in mud!

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    I really wanted to go and have a hot mud bath, having seen the adverts which make it look really fun!
    We went to 'Hell's Gate' and were shown to a large concrete 'bath'. We climbed in and there was muddy water, with a layer of mud just a few centimetres deep in the bottom! Unfortunately, although
    the mud itself was fine and smooth, there …

  • 2

    Holy Hell!

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    Although Hell's Gate was formed 10,000 years ago it gets that notorious name from Geroge Bernard Shaw who visited the area. Used by Moari warriors for therapeutic means it is filled with hot springs, mud pools and suphur lakes. At the beginning of the track is a mud pool where we could soak our feet in the warm mud - it was fantastic. One of the …

  • 3

    Rotorua, Taupo, and Retaruke Day.

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    OK, well, after Uncle Boy's we headed of to Rotorua to see the Geothermal activity there. Myself and 3 of my friends went for a guided walk around 'Hell's Gate'. It was so fantastic, with all these boiling pools spewing steam, and the stench of rotten egg! We even got to take some mud from the pools and have a free mud facial! Our skin was so soft …

  • 4

    it's not that smelly in Rotorua!

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    We woke up in a farm this morning (nope, no roosters), and paid Steve and Heather a visit. So to set the context, their's a dairy farm. They had a lot of Guernsey Cows, and the milk of these cows were used to make cheese. Some more facts! Cows produce 20l of milk daily and they actually like being milked or they'll feel very swollen. (i think …

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