Hells Gate - Rotorua
April 3rd 2010 No time to sleep in today - we are booked in at the 9am shuttle bus to Hells Gate - an active geothermal reserve.
First we do the 1 hour walk around starting at the Waharoa - a carved gateway representing an ancestral chief and the maori god of volcanic activity - Ruaumoko.
Things we saw include: Hells Gate - a large hot pool with no visible inlet or outlet and a temperature of 62 degrees. D
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