Kiwi International Villas Rotorua

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... and smelly mud pools, it has a feel of Harrogate about it, very twee and very English and very pricey.... Jeezus the price of accomodation is high in NZ !! The best deal I could get came on my eigth attempt, a backpacker hostel - 50 NZ dollars @ 2.2 NZD to the pound, this country is not cheap.
Anyways, bollocks to it, there's an Irish pub around the corner, I'm off for a couple of pints.

... all the snobbery you find in Europe. There's also a wierd tale about a knitting shop, a man called John and a driveway but no time for that here.
Er...I've been going on for ages but there's MORE FOLKS.Caught the ferry over to Wellington where we hooked up with the lovely Kirsty and Stu at which point we abandoned the van and enjoyed a room of our own and took massive advantage of K and S's great hospitality and tour-guiding skills. As well as supplying us with huge ...

... center of New Zealand mostly because of the thermal activity in the ground here. There are loads of natural hot springs which provide natural hot water, so the early Maori tribes took a liking to the place. It also smells terribly like sulphur so I don't know how they got around that, but they did and now Rotorua is the place to be. So I went to a Maori cultural night where they fed us food from a hangi ...

... been raining lots. I had originally planned on staying 2 days but with the bad weather and suffering a cold i checked the weather and found the following day should be better so i stayed an extra day and luckily the weather did improve. So i got chance the walk around the town a bit and walked down to a geothermal park, where i saw lots of mud pools, hot springs and a geyer. I also got a free ticket for a 45min Maori Cultural Show which was very good.

... cat threw me a few filthies and I wasn't happy he didn't need to label his food either the flea bag ;) Our Maori experience was with at the Maitai village just outside the town and included a hangi (a traditional meal cooked underground), a show/concert (showcasing Maori ways, traditions, music and fighting, as well as a canoe filled with Maori paddling around us) and finally a walk through the grounds to the revered spring. We were picked up at the hostel by jimmy, our ...

... and was moving swiftly across the surface with the wind forming mini-whirlwinds. There was a castle-like rock formation on the side of the lake with a huge chimney-like volcanic vent that pumped out steam. Steam rose up from the lakes into the forest-covered craters. The whole place looked so other-worldly. Now for a brief history of the place. In 1886, Mt Tarawera in Rotorua erupted, destroying the ...

... ignorance is bliss" : o ) * did ya spot I have changed peoples names....Mable x Ok, so you have read Mables entry let's put it right! Firstly Mac was not best pleased as he wasn't allowed to do the rafting as the lifejacket was too big so it was fun time for Bri and Carol....Bri didn't fall out into a rapid, in the knowledge, let's call it a six sense only a true explorer has, he jumped out of the boat to rescue Carol and Screamer BEFORE they ...

... We get back to town so that we can borrow a spade and attempt the hot water beach idea again. we enter the beach and turn right (note the mistake) and spend 20 minutes digging a large hole to get tepid water again ahaha. we head to the other side of the beach and dig again this time the water is to hot to stand in. At last we have found the water we were seeking however there is a downside and bieng by the ...

... hasn't been able to upload it as of yet. He, on the other hand, is not so fortunate. Naturally having suffered my embarrassment I forced him up on stage when men had to participate to do the haka. Well the results are up so I'll let you judge for yourself. Once you've watched it once and stopped laughing, watch it again, but this time focus on the old guy dressed in orange on the left side of the screen. Hilarious. And this was right before the Ireland vs ...