Rotorua & Taupo: Hold your nose to appreciate the beauty

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Rotorua After the cave tour we headed off in the direction of Rotorua, about two hours drive from Waitomo. Rotorua is a large enough town in the middle of a thermal playground. The draws here are hot mud pools, geysers but definitely not the smell. The place literally stinks. It is like driving into Killybegs on a really bad day but you can’t drive past it, it lingers. The smell is of course fr... Read Full Entry

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