It sounds like a dream or some kind of psychosis... Fluorescent yellow ponds, giant soapy geysers, green water falls, bubbling pools of sulphur, the The Devil's Ink Pots and a steaming multicoloured lake. I wasn't asleep though and as far as I know I hadn't had a break with reality. This was Wai-O-Tapu, the "Sacred Waters". In this Thermal Wonderland everything I thought I knew about the world seemed to be turned upside down. We arrived on a dull and drizzly morning and were redirected from the visitor's centre to another site about a mile away. Here people were already gathering to watch the Lady Knox Geyser erupt. We had a brief explanation as to how the geyser was discovered... It turned out that some local prisoners tried to wash their clothes in the geyser's warm
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