Rotorua Travel and Tourism Guide

In half-sleep I could feel the girls were already up and moving around the room. I woke up feeling cold. A little too cold. It seems no matter how cold the weather is, during the night I'll kick off my covers. Childhood habit I guess. I opened my eyes and found another discovery. I quickly rolled over onto my stomach, but there's no telling how long I'd been laying there in a full morning salute that my boxers failed to hide. Maybe the girls didn't notice."Morning. Morning! Morning!" the thre...

Eigentlich wollten wir in der Früh von einem Aussichtspunkt an der Uferstraße auf den Sonnenaufgang warten - daraus wurde aber dank wolkenverhangenem Himmel nichts. Also sind wir zurück zum Blue Lake gefahren und haben dort gefrühstückt und unsere Wasservorräte (nur 18 Liter an Trink- und Nutzwasser) aufgefrischt. Unser erstes Ziel heute war das "Thermal Wonderland" in Waiotapu - wieder ein sehr aktives Vulkangebiet - wie sich herausgestellt hat, das beste bisher. Zum einen war es recht...

7:30 am Leave hotel for breakfast on mountain top restaurant ( Mt Ngongotaha)  9:00 am Visit to the Agrodome and various ram, sheep and dairy demonstrations.  Then to Whakarewarewa Thermal Reserve and the Maori Arts and Crafts Institute.  Continue to a model Maori village and the Thermal Valley  All before lunch!!   Rotorua is in a very active thermal area, even for New Zealand, and has lots of hot springs and a sulfur smell that permeates the entire area....

We left the hotel around 9.20 A.M. for the Lady Knox Geyser that erupts daily at 10.15 A.M. It’s located at Wai-O-Tapu, 20 minutes drive from Rotorua.It is recommended that the tourists should go to buy the tickets before 9.45 A.M as there’s a long queue.There was quite crowded around that time we went (February), the seats were full. Before the Geyser would erupted there’s a staff from Wai-O-Tapua telling us about the legend of the geyser. At 10.15 A.M. the geyser started to erupted, t...