Solitaire Lodge Rotorua
5 Tarewa Road Rotorua, North Island, 3201, New Zealand
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New beaches & a muddy New Year!
... Freddy’s Drop, Koro, The Black Seeds & Shapeshifter, were but a few. The forecast looked ominous 200mm of rain was predicted for the weekend! The roads around the Coromandel were packed! Tight windy roads around mountains and cliffs chock full, in foggy sheet rain conditions sometimes crawling along due to one way bridges not meant for an onslaught of tourists such as this. Upon finally arriving I hooked back up with Mikey & Maja and met up with an old ...
Rotorua-Gisborne/Tatapouri-Rotorua CZ
... 7 dve maminky a zbytek mlady. Jsou to srandovni tvoreckove a my jsme si je hladili a pak i krmili kouskama cerstve ryby- zradlo se musi dat na dlan pod rejnoka jelikoz maji pusu dole a oni to z te dlane vysajou jak vysavac :) byl to zvlastni pocit a my jsme vydavali srandovni zvuky jak nam rekl Shaun a mozna jsme i vylekali skupinku za nama :) dokonce se nam i podarilo videt nejvetsiho rejnoka ale ten se o jidlo moc nezajimal a jen tak ledabyle kolem nas ...
So Much Activity
... distorted by algae and oily deposits. Otherwise everything was close to the way it appeared back in 2008: the Soda Fountain was full and steaming, Elephant Rock was still there, the Hot Springs Algae were bright and colourful, and the Golden Fleece was white and yellow like the legendary fleece of Greek legend. The main attraction here is the The Artist's Palette: the pools and formations are in multiple colours and slowly mix in to each other ...
Taupo
... is actually “Mt Doom” from the Lord of The Rings movies! I quickly waddled to the lakes to take a pic while they were clear, and then headed to the Waikato River to pick up the well laid out trail heading out of town. The river is so clean and fresh that the water is an amazing emerald colour. I passed the Taupo bungy spot and managed to watch one guy take the plunge over the water. No thank you! Headed further along the cliff top above the river and through the municipal ...
Rotorua
... a haka. The one guy who played the guitar was HUGE. No jokes – he looked like a baby whale and was about 8ft tall. I can only imagine their enemies pooping in their grass skirts if they saw 400 of him doing the haka in the jungle… The eye bulging is rather disturbing. Their dancing and singing is accompanied by the typical Maori / Pacific hand-trembling action. This symbolises the life-force in each person. After the show, I went back to the archway, where I linked up ...



