Thermal Wonderland

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Geo: -38.1398, 176.247

20th May

The final day of our trip. We spent the morning at the Wai O Tapu "Thermal Wonderland" where the combination of boiling hot water, steam and various minerals have created all sorts of colours in the rocks, pools, lakes and streams. Admittedly it probably looks even more spectacular when the whole place is NOT shrouded in mist but it was still very colourful. And they have the biggest expanse of bubbling mud pools in New Zealand so I got to see them at last – Hooray !

Then it was time to head back to Auckland ready for our flight tomorrow. We drove through Oxford, Cambridge, Hamilton and Bombay (shouldn't that be renamed Mumbai ?) but by-passed Hobbiton this time. To make us feel better about leaving it absolutely poured with rain.

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Comments

[Antony]

Thank you so much, guys, for sharing these experiences ! I enjoyed all of them !Have a safe journey back ! At least, you should travel back towards warmth... ;-))

[Koen en Wim]

Hallo mannen!Wat een schitterende foto's! Zijn jullie ook in de Hellen geweest in Japan (bij Beppu) en de Aso vulkaan? Daar doet het mij aan denken. Prachtig!Een goede reis terug en we spreken elkaar snel weer!Veel groeten van Koen en Wim.

[Yasuyo]

What adventures you have had! I guess you two have wonderfully refreshed.Safe journey to London, finally here is getting warmer.

[Allan og ?jvind]

Hej - mange tak for, at I har delt jeres vidunderlige rejse med os. Det har v?ret meget interessant at f?lge med via de flotte billeder. Rigtig god tur hjem - forh?bentlig vil Eivindurjofjoturj?kullvattna - eller hvad den nu hedder - lade H
eathrow v?re ?ben for jer. Mange k?rlige hilsner ?+A

[Rob de Koning]

That was one hell of a trip! It's wonderful to have had all these experiences.You had wanted to go on this trip for so long. But why not do it again? It sounds like there's a lot more to explore, or to revisit some of those spectacular p
laces. You certainly had prepared well for this trip. You couldn't have done it better!And great to see how you both love it equally much X