Kingsgate Hotel Rotorua

... .  We practices the song we will be singing at the Marai tomorrow night, "Hakuna Matata."    6:00 p.m. Rotorua, Kingsgate Hotel Taking a shower felt wonderful!  We arrived at the hotel in Rotorua around 5 p.m. and had some time ...

We left Auckland this morning for our next stop - Rotorua. The weather cleared up beautifully and we had a good flow of traffic out of the city despite a small accident. Instead of heading down to Hamilton (on State Highway 1) we took the scenic route ...

... ) 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 ...

... really serious stuff going on there. The smell of rotten eggs is something you can smell near most of the geothermal areas around Rotorua but was much stronger than in town. Not a shocker since you could find traces of sulphur all around Hell's Gate in ...

This morning we enjoyed a two-hour nature walk in the forest covering Mount Ngongotaha just outside Rotorua. Underneath the canpoy it was possible to hear a myriad of bird calls from various birds native to the area: North Island Tomtit (Petroica ...

Sheep, Shoes and Rush Hour in New Zealand We did a walking tour around Rotorua this morning after an in-room, self-serve, continental breakfast and the girls bought a few items in the souvenir shops. The lake here is hot, murky and stinks like hell of ...