Ngongotaha Lakeside Lodge Rotorua
41 Operiana Street Rotorua, North Island, New Zealand
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Day 189
... shops; jade carving is a bit of a local specialty and there’s some lovely jade jewellery and stuff around. We also shopped for books and I finally got the right SD card for my camera. Yay, I now once more have a fully functioning camera! Remind me what I’m supposed to do with it again? Then we go supermarket shopping – I am once more going back on a health-kick, I can’t bear eating any more ****. It’s just really hard when the ...
DAY 5 - WAI-O-TAPU
Thermal Springs
From Rainbow Springs we went to Wai o tapu - An area of thermal activity. The earth's core is very close to the surface here. There is water and mud boiling up and erupting everywhere. Smells like sulpher. Spectacular and I don't ...
Rotorua - "Have you farted?"
... were pretty interesting if not fragrant.
Once our noses had recovered from the assault on them we headed off to the town centre for a look around the shops. It's amazing what you realise you wish you'd packed (leggings and a long sleeved top for me and a shirt for Greg). We also stopped by a little sushi shop and got some of the best sushi we've ever eaten for only $6 - bargain!
The hostel we stayed at clearly understood the ...
Just in time beim Geysir ^^
... neongelbes Loch, dass man schwören könnte, die Betreiber des Parks hätten dort 100 Extra-Fässer Chemikalien reingeschmissen^^ Ein wahres Schauspiel der Natur ;)
Am Nachmittag sind wir nach einem verregnetem Mittagessen in unserer offenen Küche (der Kofferraum) auf dem Parkplatz sind wir weiter Richtung Süden gefahren und es wurde tatsächlich etwas trockener =) Wir haben noch eine kleine Wanderung zu dem Wasserfall „Huka Falls“ gemacht, der sich durch eine ...
Very different and unusal
Tauranga out to Rotorua, geo thermal wonder land, another of Mother Natures’ Surprises. Lovely harbour at Tauranga with the mountain behind, beaches too. Bus tour taken out to Rotorua for the day, strong Hydrogen sulphide smell, walked around the site fascinating, also went to the Rainbow Springs and saw Kiwis for the first time. Had an excellent lunch on a Paddle steamer on the lake, long day very tired, but very good. ...



