Rotorua

We arrived in Rotorua and the first thing we noticed was the smell in the air. It is a geo-thermal area and the sulpher from the volcanic activity in the area gives it a horrible boiled eggs smell. You really can't escape it and eventually you smell it on yourself and your clothes too. Apart from that, Rotorua is a really nice little town and we decided to spend 3 days here.
On our first whole day we did the Skyline Gondola, which was only alright as it doesn't go very high so the view from the top wasn't as spectacular as in Queenstown. We hadn't done the luge before, but after Kelly told us it was really fun, we wanted to do it. She was right and we got some good pictures of us too, so definitely worth going up there for that.
Later that day we walked through one of the geo-thermal parks and here the stink was extra bad, but very interesting to see the thermals with the smoke and steam coming out of them. As usual we took loads of photos. The weather was fantastic on this day, so we booked a white water rafting trip for the following day.
Unfortunately the weather didn't hold and the next day it was raining, but we went anyway and had a blast. I'll tell you all about it in the next blog post.