After the Tongariro Crossing we headed North to Taupo again, for a nights rest and relaxation at a campsite with a thermal bath! We then headed on to Rotorua, on the thermal highway! We reached Wai-O-Tapu - our first stop in pretty good time, and spent a good couple of hours walking round the mad landscape! http://www.geyserland.co.nz It is billed as the top geothermal attraction in NZ, and it doesn't dissapoint. Once again many of the photo's that we took don't do the place justice - it really is a surreal environment. There are loads of hot pools, mineral pools, small geysers, bubbling mud pools and fumeroles. We covered every inch of the park - some area's really stunk of eggs - the result of the sulphur bubbling up tot he surface! After Wai-O-Tapu we headed
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