A Busy Day in Rotorua

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We started the day by walking to some local geothermic ponds. Fascinating to see the steam coming out from all sorts of weird places, culverts, man hole covers and back yards of houses, in the afternoon we visited a village that had been buried by a quake very atomspheric and an exhilerating climb to see a waterfall. This evening we have had a most entertaining trip to a Maori settlement with a Haka and Hangi (feast) cooked the traditional way! (fire pit to be built in the garden)

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Photos

Local Park
One of the many pools where water was boiling up through the earths surface. Only slightly smelly.

Sign on a spring
Check out the temperature!!
212 This was used to fill a local spa baths

Buried Village
Worth the climb down 216 steps to see these falls but killing to get back up again!

Maori
Found some new companions for the evening. Interesting dress sense.