Smelly Sulphur
Trip Start
Oct 05, 2007
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Trip End
Oct 04, 2008
Rotorua,
North Island,
New Zealand
Saturday, May 10, 2008
The next day we thought we would do the culture bit and go and see one of the many Maori cultural center/villages. So we walked all the way there and then decided it was much to expensive, so we went in the gift shop instead! Then we headed for the spa! It was over looking the lake and has acide and alkaline pools - ones good for the ole joints the other for your skin! This was all very warm and relaxing, especially as there was hardly another sole there! The following day we were offered a seriously cheep deal on white water rafting which I took up - kathryn didn't fancy the 7 meter waterfall we were to encounter - turns out its the biggest waterfall you can raft down commercially in the world - it was AWESOME!!
Rotoroua is THE place to go Zorbing - a Kiwi invention - you roll down a hill in an inflated ball...sounds just as wierd as it is, but it is the best fun ever! Getting in through the tiny hole is a bit of an effort, you have to run and then dive in...needless to say i got stuck half way....too much chocolate me thinks!! The ball is then filled with hot water, the gate opened, you run four steps and then sit down and the ball rolls in zig zags (you can do it straight but the zig zags looked better) down the hill and you get thown all over the place and get generally wet - wearing a yellow t-shirt was a huge mistake!!!! Then Kathryn decided to do her long awaited bungy jump, which was terrifying...for me anyway!! I was busy nattering away to the person next to me about how my friend was insane and about to jump out of the krane that was wobbling about above us and I turn around and she was allready falling to her doom....all very impressive!!
Ohh and i nearly forgot one day somewhere in there we went to a geothermal park where we saw boiling mud pools - so grose, a 15 meter Geyser - which was stimulated by grating soap into it, bits of rock with steam coming out, some fairly wierd and wonderful colours in sulphur pools, a bright green pool and a champagne pool - really did look like champagne!! They all had suitable names like devils armpit and dragons left nostril of course! And I have mentioned yet just how much Sulphur stinks - its truly fowl!!
Thats it for Rotorua - apart from to mention that we now have a bit of a reputation for scrabble and monopoly - to the extent that the owner bought us a new monopoly set to play with.................oh deer!!
