Wai-o-tapu

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We changed out clocks here last night. Since it's spring here and not fall we sprung ahead by an hour so now i'm 19 hours ahead of home, kinda weird!

Anyways, we were up early to drive out to Wai-o-tapu which is 20 minutes drive from Rotorua and is a big geothermal park so lots of stinky geysers and all that kind of fun stuff. The lady knox geyser goes off at 10:15am everyday because the park puts surfactants in the geyser at that time which sets off the geyser, very smart.

Bought out tickets and then drove over to the geyser. A park guide did a bit of a talk and then added the surfactant and set the geyser off. It was slow to go but it did shoot water up pretty high. Drove back to the visitor center and then did the walks through the park. Was pretty neat to see.

In the video for the geyser you should be able to hear the guide talk about how prisoners came upon the geyser in the 1800's and how they were doing their washing in the warm spring that was there which in turn set off the geyser giving them a bit of a scare.

We headed over to the agrodome which puts on sheep shearing demonstrations and stuff but it was quite expensive and we weren't that interested in it so we ate some ice cream and watched some horse jumping that was going on. We drove all around Lake Rotorua and then back to the hostel.

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Meike
Hehe she's so funny

Comments

[anonymous]

the bubbling mud and the zorbing both look so cool...imagine combining the two!!