On the way out of Rotorua, we stopped at a placed called Wai-O-Tapu. To explain a bit about the Rotorua area: two tectonic plates join across the middle of the North Island of New Zealand and this makes this area particularly volcanic. However, another phenomenon is the 'Thermal Activity' which occurs in several areas - best of all at Wai-O-Tapu. This is where Gasses bubble up through the earth's crust, heating water and mud and generally making amazing colours BUT SMELLING OF EGGS!
You can genuinely believe you are on another planet when you go here. I'll let the photos do the talking, because I don't think my words would do it justice but every metre of this 3km trek was incredible.
On to Waitomo...
We were on a bit of a whistle stop tour of the North Island as we wanted most of out time down South but we couldn't leave without going to Waitomo (assuming you're looking up all these places on Google Maps!)
The Black Abyss trip was Darren and My Christmas present to each other. Again, something I'm finding really difficult to describe but put it this way - I never thought that dressing up in a half centimetre thick wetsuit and jacket, followed by baggy shorts and wellies and then squeezing through tight gaps - all at 8am, would be so much fun but it RULED!! We're totally hooked. Find us a Wookey Hole after April 1st!
Lou xx
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