Rotorua (12/17 to 12/20/06) Rotorua is the most commercialised tourist destination on the North Island, and to put it bluntly...it smells like poo! You don't get used to the horrid egg smell of sulphur, and before you know it, your hair and clothes smell like poo too! But you don't come here for the smell...you come here to see the impressive thermal activity...bubbling mud pools, steaming hot springs, and bright colored mineral lakes. Rotorua sits right between the Indian-Australian and Pacific plates. Since it sits right along the fault line, if you buy land here, over time your land will either increase or decrease in size. The land is constantly changing here since the earth's crust is only 7km deep vs. 30km in most of the world. In addition to the crazy environmental specialities here, Rotorua
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