Wai-O-Tapu

The next day in Rotorua was pretty great. Our first stop was Wai-O-Tapu. We decided to rent a car for the day because a few places we wanted to visit were a bit further away and there was no public transport there. It was quite cheap ($59, including insurance) but at first we had some difficulties to rent it… I didn’t have my international licence with me and Milena was too young to drive the rental car. The lady at the rental company said she can’t rent the car for us without the licence but luckily her boss was also there and he said he likes Finnish people so it was fine with just the Finnish licence. :D  We were so lucky.

Wai-O-Tapu is a volcanic area with thermal pools and geysers. Over there we spent about three hours walking around and we also went to see the eruption of the Lady Geyser. We thought it was gonna be natural but one of the employees there had to drop some natural soap to the geyser for it to erupt. It was cool but it would’ve been cooler if it happened naturally.

Rotorua

I don't even remember the last time I've opened my laptop... My life's not so busy at the moment but lately I've been really into reading and doind other stuff and not that interested in spending my time in front of the laptop. But anyways, here's some stuff again from some time ago. :)


Me and Milena were both off the whole weekend of 18.-20.9. so we did a little trip to Rotorua. Rotorua is quite a small city south-east of Auckland (230km away). There’s almost 70 000 people living there so it was nice for me to compare it to Rovaniemi because they’re quite the same size. And it was so nice to visit a small city after being in Auckland for a while.

We arrived to Rotorua around 2pm on Friday so we only had about 4 hours before it got dark. So we just walked around the city centre, through some parks and did a walk along the Lake Rotorua. Rotorua is known for having lots of geothermal activity (geysers, hot mud pools) around the city. Even in one of the parks right at the city centre there were these steamy pools.