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Spencer Lodge Rotorua

Spencer Rd, Lake Tarawera Rotorua, North Island, New Zealand

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New beaches & a muddy New Year!

A travel blog entry by traveling-chef

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... Fernie days Craig and his gal, Alexis. We backed up our vans into a circle and immediately got the tarps up to battle the rain and winds. There was no point even trying to stay dry at this fest by half way through the first night the ground had turned into an ankle deep mud pit, later gaining depth to calf-knee deep! At least it wasn’t cold and there is something neat about a festival going off in that kind of downpour! Unfortunately there’s just so much ...

Smelly smelly

A travel blog entry by gabri123

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... Polynesian spa; this was a collection of mineral pool, heated to different temperatures by geothermal heat. It was really relaxing, I especially liked the pool with a fantastic view over Sulphur bay – a large bay of bubbling water, mud pool and steam. Amazing! Rotorua is famous for the geothermal activity in the area…there are lots of bubbling mud pool and geysers which is pretty cool, however, the downside is that the whole town stinks ...

Rotorua-Gisborne/Tatapouri-Rotorua CZ

A travel blog entry by nadiav

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... jsme si to do te chvile kdy jsme zjistily ze si Nadenka namocila fotak a to byl konec. Bohuzel ani po vysuseni se nevzpamatoval a tak se musel koupit novy , nastesti stejny a za vyhodnejsi cenu. Doufejme ze to byla jedina katastrofa na cestach! Zbytek dne uz byl nijaky. Cesta zpet do Rotorua vedla stejne a tak uz jsme ani nikde nezastavovali a vetsinu cesty prospaly. V Rotorua jsme se stihly podivat do mistniho parku a na par dalsich jezirek a po veceri se slo ...

So Much Activity

A travel blog entry by laven

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... an artist would when using oils to paint.

After three thermal parks I can definitely recommend seeing them all as each specialises in specific thermal features: Hell's Gate (which we saw yesterday) for it's sulphur lakes and mud pools, Te Puia for the geysers, and Orakei Korako for the algae and terraces/scarps. The drive back to Rotorua was just a peaceful and starting to get to close to thinking about what to do for dinner. So many ...

Taupo

A travel blog entry by lieselbotha

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... So very clean. Picked up the right trail and headed over a stream using a small wooden bridge. This is known as Hot Water Stream – geothermally heated water runs down into the river here and it is a popular local bathing spot. The lady at reception had told me to take my cozzie – and I had it on. Decided to keep going and stop on the way back. It was such a lovely day out. The path led up and down next to the river. Some really nice houses built up on the hill across from ...