Zorb Rotorua

Au matin j’ai fait 2h de route pour me rendre à Rotorua, la capitale des maoris, qui est située en plein sur une faille tectonique. La journée la bas a commencé par un spectacle de moutons, un show assez marrant avec la présentation des races de moutons, une démo d’une tonte, un border collie qui mènes des oies, etc… Je me suis …

Entry containing 5 photos titled: Zorbing, Maori Village, Maori weaving, Boiling eggs in a hot pool, A Geyser

We drove back to Matamata to join the Hobbiton tour. As it was the first day they'd re-opened after filming The Hobbit (which was still being filmed the day before!), we were among over 60 people enthusiastically catching the tour bus. Unfortunately, we had to sign to say that we wouldn't tell anyone about the things we saw or were told, and that …

And so, it was goodbye Australia, hello New Zealand as we boarded the flying kangaroo for another great harbour city, Auckland. We were setting off on our last leg of the world tour and one that would be defined by roadtripping – the only acceptable way to traverse that gorgeous green land as typified by the array of wacky campers and cheap …

Today we woke up at around 10 AM. We started the day by doing some schoolwork, and we did that for about 3 hours. After schoolwork, we started to plan our day. We decided we were going to drive around, and see what we would do. We left at 3 PM, and started driving around Rotorua. We stopped first at Zorb, where you go in a giant inflatable ball, …

Quite incredible to think that this time last year we were both getting ready for our wedding – although a bit complicated to try to think about that when the time difference is so big! We had a home-made breakfast at the motel in Whakatane, had a mad search for the room key to check out which was eventually found on the back seat of the car …

Started my adventure on the 16th with Australearn on the their "Bridging Cultures Program" in Rotorua New Zealand. Which is a five day long program to help us transition to New Zealand. There's about 60 of us from all around the US going to study at the University of Otago through Australearn. Boy is it nice to be eating real food …

Today was an action packed day.

We went Zorbing today. What is Zorbing? Zorbing was invented in New Zealand. It is a clear plastic bubble (two bubbles actually one inside the other) in which you sit inside and roll down the hill. Yeah….sound a bit weird? Well you are right it is but it was a lot of fun. You can have up to three …

[Rich]: Having arrived at an awkward 4.30am in Auckland, and with a day to spare before we were picking up our home for the next 3 weeks (the campervan) we had plenty of opportunity to see the city, despite people telling us there isn't much to do there. We arrived 'downtown' and we were about to agree that there really is nothing going on in …

Upon entering Rotorua you might as well hand over your cashcard and your PIN number to the city because it's going to obliterate your budget anyway, there's so much cool stuff to do if you can get used to the smell.
Ah yes. The smell. You can't talk about Rotorua without mentioning the smell, it's sort of compulsory. Most people who've been to …

... better option as you got to go head over heels downhill instead of just getting sloshed around in the water at the bottom of the Zorb.  She went for the 'crazy' option where she was spun down as opposed to going straight.  Again it was quickly ...

Hi all...Bugger, its cold!!!!........ Arrived in New Zealand slap bang in the middle of winter! A bit of a shock to the system from being in Fiji! Not to complain though as we couldn't wait to get here and get stuck into all there is to offer! To be fair ...

... see - hence our decision not to bother with the boat trip!     A major attraction of New Zealand, and particularly within Rotorua, is a cultural Maori evening, involving a Maori performance and a traditional meal known as a Hangi ...

... it's important to me to get 'something' down. And also because I'm hopeless - if I lose momentum with this, it'll all be lost. Tomorrow, it's off to the biggest lake in New Zealand, and to the outskirts of some of the fine 'Lord of the Rings' ...

... ; I reaffirm that I have no interest in bungy jumping... Believe it or not, it is still just 10am and we are off to the Zorb... What great names, huh?  The zorb is a big plastic ball that you are zippered into the middle of after water is put in ...

... plate and the rest of it is on the Australian plate. Rotorua is on the fault line that runs right through New Zealand, caused by the Pacific plate and the Australian plate pushing against each other. This causes geothermal activity around places such as ...

... . We drove up and down the Bay of Plenty before heading inland to Central North Island and the cultural and geothermic town of Rotorua, one of the Pacific’s most active thermal regions and home to the biggest concentration of Maori people in NZ. We ...

... huge beach ball! As it was such a hot day we were advised to try the 'washing machine' option - once safely trapped inside the zorb a cold water hose is trained on you and turned on for several seconds. Choosing to do our first run in the same zorb, Dan ...

... Rings movies, so the town adopted the name, hoping for more tourists to visit! About lunchtime we pulled into our final destination, Rotorua, and boy didn't we know it, it smelt so bad! People describe the smell as a rotten eggs and because of this ...

For better or worse, it's raining in Queenstown and no matter what else New Zealand offers, it's not a fun place to be stuck in a van when it's hammering out of the heavens. So rather than risk certain death on the luge, or a slow death at the indoor ...