Whakarewarewa Thermal Village

Outside it's raining but inside it's wet

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August 6th 2006
Rotorua is hell. It’s not that it is a bad place, more like the fact that the town is surrounded by bubbling mud pools, violent geysers and that a particularly unpleasant sulphur aroma hangs in the air. If you had an image of hell, it would probably be like Rotorua. I visited Whakarewarewa Thermal Village; a Maori settlement located where the ground is at its thinnest and hot springs gurgle cont ... read more

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The Polynesian Maori reached New Zealand in about A.D. 800. In 1840, their chieftains entered into a compact with Britain, the Treaty of Waitangi, in which they ceded sovereignty to Queen Victoria while retaining territorial rights. In that same year... ... read more