First stop Rotorua… Waitomo Cave Tubing Put on a wet suit and a hard hat, grab an innertube and descend into the caves. The tour was pretty cool and you get see plenty of glow worms. They are worms that live in the caves and their ass glow blue. In total darkness it looks like Read More »
Man this places stinks! Its a natrual therma thingy! Which means it has lots of holes in the ground full of gases, hot bubbling water and mud. The hostel (hot rocks) I stayed in used to be a old school and it really shows! I went to a nice English pub for dinner, it was Read More »
We made it to Rotorua later in the afternoon, we could see and smell the town before we got there. The steam and smell rises from the geothermal areas well above the town. Stopped at a park in the center of town and had acloser look at these interesting places. The water is really hot you can hear Read More »
Well, we arrived in Rotorua about an hour ago and it lives up to its name of the ‘smelly city’. The smell of sulphur is certainly in the air, although it’s not as bad as I thought it might be. Now, to update you on what else has happened…. We flew out at 11.40 on Read More »
Well we decided to head off early, so I met Bobby down at this hostel around 10am, and after packing up the car, which is only just big enough to get one bag in the boot, we headed off. We had an addition to our posse, Phil from essex, who was getting a lift down Read More »
Heya all, So after leaving Raglan, a place I would never want to leave, I’ve arrived in Rotorua, a geothermal town in the central north island. Rotorua stinks! It smells of sulfar all day, every day! But, there are some fun things to do here, this morning I went Zorbing. You hope in a giant ball Read More »
With just a few days left on the North Island, and a lot of the main attractions still to see, we headed for Rotorua, NZ’s thermal capital. The top of the North Island is alive with volcanic activity and fissures in the Earth’s surface so we were expecting it to be like no other place Read More »
Decided to stay at the same Backpackers as i did with Charlie as i knew where it was etc. We arrived there very late and we were both very tired so we decide to chill out and watch TV, in the TV room we met a Brit couple called Stu and Caroline chatted to them Read More »
We left Waitomo at 9.30am and arrived in Rotorua at 12.15pm. The area is famous for having a rotten egg smell caused by its many geothermal areas which seeps into all of your clothes! After checking in to our new hostel we went straight to the info centre for help on deciding what to do for Read More »
Well, what a great day we had today. Our guide picked us up form our hotel room and took us out to Wai-o-tapu thermal wonderland. The thermal pools were amazing and perhaps the names such as the champagne pool and the artist’s pallette might go some way to describing the beautiful springs. Lovely to look Read More »
