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Assenczo Says: The only thing to do around is to immerse oneself in the natural beauty of the colourful lakes, pans and geysers. For security reasons, this is going to be more a mental rather than physical exercise. The palette of different colours might turn you into a contemporary Van...
dimanche Says: the famed "champagne pool"! as mentioned by vtveens
dimanche Says: again the name is apt.
dimanche Says: they really do look like pools of ink............
dimanche Says: full of potholes like that with steam rushing out every second! its amazing how much geothermal energy that place generates!
schuurton Says: Wait for the guy who puts washingpowder on the geyser.
shiran_d Says: The main park at Wai-O-Tapu is characterised by a large area of steaming ground and fumarolic activity associated with collapse craters and mud pools. The thermal activity is responsible for the noticeable variety of colours in the exposed rocks. The main attraction however...
Assenczo Says: Car is the best option. It allows you to visit the environs of Rotorua at your own pace. Wai-o-tapu is about 25km from downtown Rotorua. There is a parking conviniently supplied with security cameras and the warning signs coming with them.
mind your jewellery in the thermal wonderland!
dimanche Says: it is seriously advisable to take off all jewellery before entering the Wai-o-tapu Thermal Wonderland because it will get corroded by all the sulphur there. the guide dipped a silver coin inside the sulphur pool and it came out copperish! mind your jewellery!
Assenczo Says: There is a Maori village between Rotorua and Wai-o-tapu. Jokes aside, it was closed!? Probably being a Maori does not pay well during the tourist off-season and they had their bags packed and gone to the city comfort of Rotorua. Whatever the case, this did not instil a firm...
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Wait for the guy who puts washingpowder on the geyser.
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this picture never fails to take my breath away. there was so much fog and mist blowing into our paths we could hardly see where we were going! perhaps to somewhere really wicked!
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Wai-O-Tapu Thermal Wonderland, It came into its own following the eruption of Mt Tarawera in 1886. Following the destruction of the Pink and White Terraces focus fell on the Primrose Terraces at...
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