Hey guys. We've just come back from our white water rafting trip. Here are the photos from the river. We actually fell out once more but it was deliberate and it didn't quite go to plan! Well funny though.

well it's not that smelly, i've smelt smellier. Thermal activity zone girls and boys, watch your feet. Thats what they tell ya. I listened this time. Amasing. Sulphur fumes, bubbling mud pools, geysers and a dinner. What more can i say...Photo's will follow. The hostel had a heated mineral pool, even though it was bloody freezin, the pools (38c)...

So we arrived in Rotorua very easily, didn't get lost. Checked in smoothly and quickly. Went to our box of a room and chilled for a little bit. Then we decided to go out for luch and plan our stay there. Get in the car and buckle up, pull the "gear" stick into R and reverse right into another car!!! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR I was so mad!! Well I s...

Well the rest of my stay in Raglan was about the same as the first bit. I wore shoes for probably two hours total across the span of the week, I wrote like a madwoman, and I had a permanent claim on a chair in the living room and a hammock in the courtyard as I bounced between them depending on whether I was writing, reading, or napping. One nig...

In the Northland area, still in a windy and cloudy day. Went golfing at a beautiful course (Kairi Cliffs) on the S. Pac. ocean. Only got in 9 holes and got too wet to finish. Next day it cleared up and we headed south. Stopped at Golf Harbor GC and had a great day of golf on a super setting over the bay between us and Auckland. Drove on and went...

I'm currently in Rotorua. The hostel is the best so far - homely, spacious, new & clean. I also like the town. It's situated near the Lake Rotorua with mountains surrounding it. When I arrived here, I was so surprised to meet Kaori (Japanese girl that I met in Whitianga). She's also stayin in the same hostel. I also got to know 2 girls from ...

Rotorua Rotorua stinks! Literally....the sulfur smell coming from the thermal mud pools and sulfuric geysers spurting sulfur make for a very strong smell in this little town nestled in the middle of the North island of New Zealand. I love it though. Not quite as small as touristy as Queenstown, but there are a lot of cool things to do and see he...

Day 11 Rotorua Rotorua is set amongst the volcanic mountains and huge crater lakes. Because of this there is a very stong smell of Sulphur (to those that dont know what that smells like, imagine rotting eggs!) Lovely. After checking into our very stylish accomodation, complete with hot tubs outside everyones rooms, we headed for lunch in the Wha...

We leave Taupo bright and early and head to Rotorua stopping at the Thermal Wonderland enroute. This basically a huge area of thermal craters and pools where the minerals in the surrounding rocks combined with the thermal water have created an assortment of colours and textures in both the rocks and the waters. It not only an interesting and oft...

Rotorua is the most commercialised tourist destination on the north island, because it has the most energetic thermal activity in the country, with bubbling mud pool, gurgling hot springs, gushing geysirs and evil eggy smells hovering around. That's why we spent a whole day in the Wai-o-Tapu thermal wonderland. Rotorua also has a large Maori pop...