Our First weekend trip was going to be Rotorua. Phil was ill from the beer the night before so Petra kindly took over the driving. In Rotorua we wanted to ride downhill the Luge so we went and had a look. We asked for directions and got told we are not allowed up there by foot only by cable car. We made up our mind quickly and gave it a miss!
Instead we walked around the thermal areas in Rotorua and around the lake. We visited Tamatekapua Meeting House. Its a sacred meeting house for Arawa people and unfortunately not open to the public. In the evening we went to Rainbow Springs Nature Park and we saw 2 really active Kiwis looking for food. The good part was we were the only ones in there, the bad part was we were not able to take any photos of them in the dark.
We stayed in a hostel and the next morning they gave us back a key deposit we never paid. That seemed like a good start and we headed of to Wai-O-Tapu, a large thermal complex including boiling pools,volcanic craters, bubbling mud, mineral terraces and the Lady Knox Geyser. We also went to the buried village of Te Wairoa. The story of the eruption of the volcano Mt Trawera was very interesting but outside there was not much left to see. As the name already sad, a "buried village".
We had a wonderful weekend and we are hoping to do something similar again soon.
Instead we walked around the thermal areas in Rotorua and around the lake. We visited Tamatekapua Meeting House. Its a sacred meeting house for Arawa people and unfortunately not open to the public. In the evening we went to Rainbow Springs Nature Park and we saw 2 really active Kiwis looking for food. The good part was we were the only ones in there, the bad part was we were not able to take any photos of them in the dark.
We stayed in a hostel and the next morning they gave us back a key deposit we never paid. That seemed like a good start and we headed of to Wai-O-Tapu, a large thermal complex including boiling pools,volcanic craters, bubbling mud, mineral terraces and the Lady Knox Geyser. We also went to the buried village of Te Wairoa. The story of the eruption of the volcano Mt Trawera was very interesting but outside there was not much left to see. As the name already sad, a "buried village".
We had a wonderful weekend and we are hoping to do something similar again soon.
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