Bayadere Lodge Bed and Breakfast Rotorua
38 Hall Road Rotorua, North Island, New Zealand
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Day 193
... hill at any moment? He doesn’t seem phased. Nod off on the bus, but I swear I knew the minute we re-entered Rotorua as the horrendous eggy smell permeated the van. I haven’t missed that, I must say. Then it’s dinner, shower and another early night. I clock a rather ‘large’ gentleman in one of the bunks in the dorm. Yep, he snored like a pig. What is it with this place? Hmm, maybe sulphur exposure and snoring should be another little research ...
Up to the Thermal Capital and Eggy Smells
... influenced history.
Spent a lovely morning at the nearby Wai-O-Tapu Thermal Wonderland, weather was fantastic for a nice change and the area packs in loads of sights with loads of fantastic bubbling pools, hot springs and mud pools with superb colours due to the different minerals in the hot springs depositing on the ...
Real Volcanic Activity
... do, and the warrior did actually hit him over the head with his club!
After we had been welcomed and shown out intentions, we were welcomed through the doorways and into the village. The village was really amazing, it was actually set up like a traditional Maori village would have been with houses and work sheds and fires, and in small groups we rotated around the houses learning about different aspects of Maori life. Conor got to try a traditional ...
Steamy Rotarua
... So anyway, Rotarua is somewhere we have heard very mixed reviews about. Some people say it's the best place they've been to and others say that it's only good if you want to see old ugly people bathing half naked in hot mud. None-the-less, we were headed there as it is a sensible stop on our route South.
The main aim of our time in Rotarua was to see hot springs and ideally a guyser but we didn't have particularly high expectations. We drove for ...
Stinky but lovely
... land, they took us to where the hangi was cooking. A hangi is an underground pit where they throw in heated rocks and place food on to roast. They showed us the chicken, lamb, potatoes and stuffing (all very irish really) that was waiting for our diner and it looked and smelled gooooood!!! At this point the show was really ready to begin. We all sat in this outdoor amphitheatre and were welcomed by the the chief. Since we were visitors to their land, ...


