Ok I have split today in to two as it was the most amazing day do far. If you have been looking at the photos I have only put a selection of today on I took over 300 photos!
The photo's don't do it justice but it is the best I could do, my suggestion, get on a plane and fly out here and see, smell and hear it for yourselves!!
We were collected early to go on an eco tour of the waitotapu park, this place is amazing. It contains bubbling mud, different coloured volcanic lakes, bubbling streams 100 degrees, and a live geyser.
All I can say is look at the photos we just walked around with our mouths wide open, the colours are even brighter than those on the photos, the mud is really bubbling all the time, the water is as hot as it looks, it is all just amazing.
Tmanhey set the geyser off every day at the same time by putting soap in the hole! It would go every day without it but not to time so they make it happen, we were right underneath it, fortunately by the time the water comes down it has cooled down.
Following that park we were transferred to the Waimangu volcanic valley. We walked down and saw where a volcano had taken place just over 100 years ago. Again we saw amazing coloured lakes and streaming hot water.
We returned to the hotel and were picked up ten minutes later to go on a four wheel drive up the Mount Tararewa, this is a privately owned volcanic mountain and this is the only company allowed to go up it. Four of us were taken up it took about 45 minutes to reach the sumit, the views were amazing. We were taken to the edge of a dormant volcano summit and allowed to go over the edge and walk/slide down into the centre, it was absolutely amazing, again the pictures cannot do it justice. The thrill of it and the colours and only 4 of us plus the guide in what felt like the centre of the earth.
We walked out from the centre and just as we thought the thrill was over we were picked up by a helicopter and flown back into the city centre. To see the whole area from this height and to again see all the colours. We also got to see sacred Maori lakes not accessible from the ground. It was a fantastic experience. We arrived back at the hotel and thought we had 2 hours before our next trip, we ran a bath, we opened the wine and....we got a phone call from reception our evening trip was 2 hours earlier than planned and they were waiting at reception for us.
For this evenings trip read the second blog of the day!
The photo's don't do it justice but it is the best I could do, my suggestion, get on a plane and fly out here and see, smell and hear it for yourselves!!
We were collected early to go on an eco tour of the waitotapu park, this place is amazing. It contains bubbling mud, different coloured volcanic lakes, bubbling streams 100 degrees, and a live geyser.
All I can say is look at the photos we just walked around with our mouths wide open, the colours are even brighter than those on the photos, the mud is really bubbling all the time, the water is as hot as it looks, it is all just amazing.
Tmanhey set the geyser off every day at the same time by putting soap in the hole! It would go every day without it but not to time so they make it happen, we were right underneath it, fortunately by the time the water comes down it has cooled down.
Following that park we were transferred to the Waimangu volcanic valley. We walked down and saw where a volcano had taken place just over 100 years ago. Again we saw amazing coloured lakes and streaming hot water.
We returned to the hotel and were picked up ten minutes later to go on a four wheel drive up the Mount Tararewa, this is a privately owned volcanic mountain and this is the only company allowed to go up it. Four of us were taken up it took about 45 minutes to reach the sumit, the views were amazing. We were taken to the edge of a dormant volcano summit and allowed to go over the edge and walk/slide down into the centre, it was absolutely amazing, again the pictures cannot do it justice. The thrill of it and the colours and only 4 of us plus the guide in what felt like the centre of the earth.
We walked out from the centre and just as we thought the thrill was over we were picked up by a helicopter and flown back into the city centre. To see the whole area from this height and to again see all the colours. We also got to see sacred Maori lakes not accessible from the ground. It was a fantastic experience. We arrived back at the hotel and thought we had 2 hours before our next trip, we ran a bath, we opened the wine and....we got a phone call from reception our evening trip was 2 hours earlier than planned and they were waiting at reception for us.
For this evenings trip read the second blog of the day!
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