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Rotorua Slideshow
Rotorua
Travel Blogs from Rotorua, New Zealand
Rotorua
In the morning ti was still raining so I definately wasn't going skydiving, instead we drove up to Rotorua and headed to a legendary place that is the 'Agrodome'. We had read about this place, much to our amusement, as they had a 'world famous sheep ...
Day 21 Hobbiton
... ;t help but pet my little lamb and I ended up with a terrible headache all day (I’m allergic.) Then we headed for Rotorua (it is pronounced like Roto-Router!) The Bed and Breakfast we had booked was actually in Ngongotaha (try to pronounce that ...
Just Hitchin' a ride
... to blag myself a lift on a bus to the end of the motorway anyway (phew) it's illegal to hitchhike on the motorway's in New Zealand, this only applies around Auckland and nobody will stop for you so you have to be lucky! I had been standing with my ...
Tamaki Maori Village
... about 1pm, we went into Town and had a look around, there is only so much you can see and do when it is raining in Rotorua! We headed back to the campsite to be picked up at 4pm by coach and be taken to the 'Village'. Thankfully the rain had ...
Eggheads
... one of the rafting companies in the area. This was ideal, as white-water rafting was high on our list of activities to do in New Zealand, so we booked on right away. The next day we arrived at the rafting centre to the best possible news; the two other ...
Geothermal park and a story.
... who run this motel told me an interesting story this morning as follows: Four years ago when they moved in here to take over the new motel they took a walk rather as we did last night. Walking down the road that runs at right angles to our road they ...
New country, new adventures
... the agent and stand in a couple lines more than once but ultimately got to NZ as planned. We couldn't book a hotel room in Auckland straight away, so into our rental car we were headed for the middle of the island and the town of Rotorua. ...
ZORB!
We checked out the geothermal centre in the morning a few minutes down the road. It is really NZ's answer to Yellowstone. Lots of cool mudpots, bubbling sulphur pools and geysers. I am sure the photos look nearly identical to some from ...
Take It To The Limit
... a lot to us to hear from our loved ones at home. We left the Bay of Islands on Monday morning and headed straight down to Rotorua, which is a very stinky little city (Jessie's words). I'm not nearly as good at the driving on the left as Jessie is, but ...
Steamy Rotarua
Getting from the North was an epic day of driving, 7 and a half hours in the car (including a little beach side-trip) but we are now south of Auckland and next is 'Steamy Rotarua.' The campsite that we stayed at was just an hour or so North of Rotarua ...
Where to now?
... running that direction until Tuesday and I didn't want to stay in Hamilton. So I looked at my handy-dandy bus schedule and decided Rotorua really wasnt too far out of the way and I had missed it on my way to Hamilton. I checked in to base Backpackers, ...
Brodelndes Land
... von unter ihr hervorkommt. Wir haben das Wai-O-Taupo besucht, das „Thermal Wonderland". In der Umgebung von Rotorua gibt es eine unheimlich große Vielfalt von geothermaler Aktivität. Dazu gehören spuckende Geysire, brodelnde Schlammlöcher, bunt ...
White Water Rafting & Bubbling Mud
... wealth of knowledge and Two Rocks kept us all smiling and guessing what he was going to hit next. Rotorua is a small but interesting town. The walk around Government Gardens and Sulphar Point was good and FREE. Bubbling ...
Kaitaia and Hamilton to Rotorua
... went to a Gumdiggers park - the tour company I went with are the only ones that do this stop at present. The native tree of New Zealand is the Kauri tree, the roots of which produce a gum, that in the 1800 & 1900's men physically dug large holes ...
Rotorua and Tongariro
Next stop on route was Rotorura, well-known for its geysers and thermal mudpools. If you drive through town you can constantly smell sulphur. We hiked around Blue Lake, like the one in Mt. Gambier also a former volcano crater and stayed at the nearby ...
Mount Mongonui
Mon 21 Today we travelled up to Mount Mongonui and re-bumped into Steve who we shared a dorm with along with Alex and Amira. We went 4 a walk around the lovely town, loved by the rich and famous before making the most delicious ...
A fun day!
... 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, and roll down a hill. There are 3 courses, and ...
It Bloody Stinks
... question was resting heavy on my mind. Why would anyone build a town on a Volcano. They could have this large city (by New Zealand standards) anywhere in this empty country but why here? Surely at some point in the future a disaster will happen. We ...
North Island
... the official term for this fight in NZ is "civil war" and not "European colonization" or "settling." What's more, the New Zealand government started an integration program since the early 1950's (well ahead of the US or Australian governments, for ...
Rotorua: The Thermal Wonderland
... . Then we shopped a bit, and headed to the Boiling Mud Pools just north of the Wai-O-Tapu site. As we continued on towards Rotorua, Hector had his first hiccup, namely a tyre blowout. It wasn't a patch job, steel belt shredded and poking out. As they ...
Beautiful country
... waterfalls. Who wouldn’t love the experience – it was awesome, would recommend it as a must do for all people visiting New Zealand – young or old and all shapes and sizes – they have a tube for you! After hot showers, ...
Rotorua
Rotorua is also known as "Rotten-rua" cos of all the geothermal activity theres a smell of sulfur around the place and it stinks!! Its a really unique place because of the smell and all the geothermal parks that are scattered around the place which have ...
Rotorua
Hey! Yesterday evening I arrived at base backpackers in rotorua! Its pretty nice down here, however it smells pretty funny. Thank good i choose base otherwise i would never have met these nice people! I already forgot the name of one of them which kind ...
Hot springs and falling down a mountain...
... ; En route to Wellington – a rather easy if somewhat lengthy trip – we stopped at possibly the funniest town in New Zealand: Bulls. It’s a tiny speck off the highway, but ridiculously cute. It’s absolutely made the most of ...
New Zealand North Island
HELLO, HELLO - So we are in New Zealand and as most of you know this place is nuts! There is so much to do it's actually mind boggling... Anyhow we spent 3 days in Auckland. The first day was just getting over the long flight from LA so we did nothing ...
Last time for a ride...
Rotorua Mountain biking at Polanisian spa Tamaki brothers show Hells gate Rotten egg smell Hire car Waitomo black water rafting White Island (NZ most active ...
Alright Geyser
On Wednesday we picked up our little hire car (a tiny Daihatsu Sirion) and drove to Rotorua. We found a lovely hostel which joy of joys had central heating (a real rarity in NZ). En route we experienced some classic NZ weather (rain) and enjoyed ...