Rain, Rain Go Away

Then we arrived and took it a little more seriously.

Quite why anyone would choose to live in a town that smells perpetually of eggy farts is beyond me. Perhaps it's the proximity to pools of bubbling clay-ey sulphuric mud. Perhaps not.

Anyway, besides the smell Rotorua offers a wealth of outdoor activities from the standard - white water rafting, to the bizarre - mud bathing for instance. We were tempted by the zorbing (strap yourself into a huge inflatable sphere and roll down a hill) ... until we saw the hill, all gently descending 20 metres of it, and decided that it really wasnt worth paying over ₤1 a second for.

Plus it was raining.

So we left.

written by  Alex Kent on December 5, 2007 from Rotorua, New Zealand
from the travel blog: On the Varieties of Nature
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