Day 324: Thermal Wonderland

With one more day in Rotorua and nothing really to do in town I decided to do a daytrip out to Wai-O-Tapu, which is a park of thermal pools outside of town. In the end it might not have been the best choice since it was pretty overpriced for what you got. The shuttle bus dropped us off and told us that it would pick us back up in 90 minutes, which really isn't a lot of time to explore a fairly large park which you've paid a fair bit of money to visit. I was hanging out with an Australian who I'd gotten to know the previous night during a bar trivia match and we managed to cover all the trails while chatting about random things, but we didn't really have time to stop and really explore.



As you can see, it's a pretty colourful place. The entire place smells of sulfur in varying degrees, and all the minerals bubbling out make the pools a rainbow. After we got back we went for a bit of a walk along the lake and through a nearby forest park, but for the most part the evening was pretty quiet.