Rotorua, New Zealand

North Island Day 6: ZORRRRRB!

Upon entering Rotorua you might as well hand over your cashcard and your PIN number to the city because it's going to obliterate your budget anyway, there's so much cool stuff to do if you can get used to the smell. Ah yes. The smell. You can't talk about Rotorua without mentioning the smell,...

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Koala Bear on January 18, 2009 from Rotorua, New Zealand

from the travel blog: Tiny Little NZ Road Trip

Rotorua to Taupo

Hello again family, friends, and fans! Jen and I are now in Taupo. The journey here from Rotorua was through beautiful farmlands and countryside. Travel time in Lucille (our cozy '85 Toy van) was about 1 hour. We stopped by Huka Falls on the way in for a look at the only outlet from Lake Taupo....

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TwoSouls on December 22, 2007 from Rotorua, New Zealand

from the travel blog: New Zealand: Santa Wears Burmudas

Quick update...

For those of you that heard about the earthquake down here, we wanted to let you know we are safe. It was a 6.8 out of Gisbon, which is about 200 km southeast of us, so we did feel the tremor, but it was mild here. It was strange though, because I didn't know that they had earthquakes down...

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TwoSouls on December 21, 2007 from Rotorua, New Zealand

from the travel blog: New Zealand: Santa Wears Burmudas

Rain, Rain Go Away

The guidebook made a flippant aside about the smell lingering over this volcanic vent of a town. We laughed it off. 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...

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Alex Kent on December 5, 2007 from Rotorua, New Zealand

from the travel blog: On the Varieties of Nature

Rafting the Kaituna - Night 48

I was wrong about the severity of the sulphurous smell. Upon opening the door to the hallway this morning I was instantly hit with a whiff of that unmistakably aroma of rotten eggs. I guess the wind had changed and the odor was blowing straight into town. Being a glutton for the obscene and...

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exumenius on November 27, 2007 from Rotorua, New Zealand

from the travel blog: Kiwis and Kangaroos

Waitamo and Rotorua - Night 47

I awoke and went for a jog at what I thought was 6am. Upon returning I found that it was already 7:20 and my bus was due out front of the hostel at 7:55. Apparently sometime during the night my watch lost 50 minutes. Piece of shit. That or I can’t tell time. I made my bus, shower and all....

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exumenius on November 26, 2007 from Rotorua, New Zealand

from the travel blog: Kiwis and Kangaroos

Hells Gate

May 30 After our unsuccessful trip to see Geothermal activity and with some advice we went to 'Hells Gate'. This reserve was formed over 10,000 years ago as a series of geothermal eruptions when ancient lakes drained to form Lake Rotoiti and Lake Rotorua. The removal of water caused faulting of...

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James & Tracey on May 30, 2007 from Rotorua, New Zealand

from the travel blog: James & Tracey World Tour

Natural Gases like the ones you and I can make!

Smelly Smelly Smelly Rotorua! If you are not one for foul eggy smells that you certainly are not one for Rotorua. This is the place that started New Zealand tourism, and yes, for its smells! Amongst other things too! Rotorua is the thermal land, where the Earths crust lays only 15,000 meters...

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Priya&Tim on March 17, 2007 from Rotorua, New Zealand

from the travel blog: Cheeky Round The World Trip

Rotorua

Drive down to an cool beach, forget its name ! I'll look it up... Half way through the journey my hang over kicks in, last nights tequila kicks in and I feel shocking, feel like staying on the bus, but a bottle of powerade sorts me out and Im playing beach Football with Annis in minutes,...

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tomrendell on February 14, 2007 from Rotorua, New Zealand

from the travel blog: New Zealand

New Zealand part 2

Milford Sound Milford Sound is a fjord- despite the name- which has steep Glacier carved cliffs plummeting into a deep harbour. It is surrounded by rainforest, and is in an area where rainful is measured in metres rather than milimetres. Luckily for us we got one of the few days in a year...

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