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 »
7 January 2005 Roturua, NZ\r Taryn: As Dad reported, we had a great time surfing (and attempting to surf\133\133) on Tuesday. That evening we drove about 3 hours to the town of Tauranga to spend the night. Many of the places here have Maori names, which, while often difficult for we Westerners to pronounce, are Read More »
The north island is spectacular scenery – rolling peaks dotted with sheep and cattle, winding roads through little villages. John and I breath in the beauty while the girls peacefully sleep . En route to Rotorura we have a rest stop at the Waikite Valley thermal pools. Three hot mineral pools ranging from 36-40 degrees. The Read More »
Dude, when you step out of the bus all you can smell is Egg, i’ve never smelt anything so bad or strong, had me and charlie shouting out loud arhhhhh!!! a few times. Other then the smell is has the most thermal pools and spars ever and after walking around Kuirau park which has loads of Read More »
This thing is going to time out in a minute so the writing might just stop and you’ll have to hold on with baited breath for the installment about the eggy city…. Anyway we arrived in Rotorua on Friday afternoon after spending a lovely night in Waitomo at an absolutely fantastic YHA lodge there – Read More »
Right…lets bring things up to date a bit. The family from Yorkshire very kindly offered me a lift back to Auckland so I could get the bus down from there to Rotorua-a backpackers haven of a geothermal area in central North Island. A little strange to say the least, sitting in the back of their Read More »
