We decided to head up to Lake Taupo and Rotorua on the 6th of Jan for 10 days to have a wee holiday before Steph started work. We managed to blag another free car relocation to travel in style and made our first stop at Lake Taupo (not before coming across a 19 year old biker who fell off his shiny new red xmas present on the road and broke his leg!!) We were first on the scene and tried to help until the ambulance came. Anyway, Taupo was lovely, the lake, the scenery and the acommodation, as soon as we arrived, we got the distinct impression that you just had to engage in some dangerous water activities so we went for the most dangerous we could find at the time and took a jet boat ride on the Tongariro river. It was pretty good thrashing about for 40 minutes, doing 360 turns and riding rapids but to be honest it was quite tame....
Our next water based adventure was far more exciting, we headed off the next day to Waitomo where we did some caving. We opted to do the "Haggas Honking Holes" which was the most physically challenging and consisted of abseiling, crawling and climbing down through caves, tunnels and waterfalls. Really exhausting but a great experience, very cool to see the glow worms and be 80 metres underground sloshing about in pools of water!
On to Rotorua where we were very well looked after by my friend Joanne's Auntie Eileen. We spent 4 days in Rotorua visiting all the geothermal sites, ooing and ahhing at the plopitty mud, taking in a traditional Maori concert complete with Hangi feast which was pretty cool and indulging in some spa therapy at the Polynesian Spa.
So that was Rotorua! It was a lot of fun and just what we needed before Steph started school.
K x
p.s. Sorry if I was going over old ground as I know Steph wrote a bit about it too, but I thought that adding some pics to the chat would be of interest (there are quite alot of geothermal pics i.e. bubbling bits of ground on flikr if that's of interest to you?!)
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