Rotorua, thermal wonderland

Rotorua is a lovely place and known mainly for its thermal activity, unfortunately is stinks of sulphur!!! Amazingly though, you can just walk around and stumble upon steaming pools of water and bubbling mud.

This is lady knox geyser, which lasts for about 1/2 hour or so once it goes off...crazy to think this is a natural thing!


The mud is very very hot but it isn't actually boiling, it is the sulphur coming up beneath it that causes the bubbling.



These pictures are from the thermal wonderland, a lovely walk around a really intriguing place
These colours are all natural, caused by different chemicals in the ground. It looks like someone just took a bucket of paint and splashed it around!

Wall of steam! Stinky wall of steam...