See ya New Zealand

6 - 7 January 2011 

The next day was our last in New Zealand, so we headed to Rotorua (smells like rotten eggs=sulfur) to go  to the Thermal Wonderland, where we got to see a Geyser and some spectacular “natural” thermal activity. You could skip if you ever go, turned out to be like an science experiment where the guy dropped soap into the geyser to make it erupt.   For the rest of the wonderland, there were pools of yellow and orange water and bubbling mud all over the place, very cool.  After we left we went to find Keresene Creek, a hot spring that isn’t marked on any map and is supposed to be for locals.  After about 30 minutes we finally found it (even though it was 5 min down the road from the wonderland) and took a nice dip, water was about 105 degrees and there was small waterfall that had created a chest deep pool which was quite nice.  With this, we packed our things and headed back to Dan’s cousins house in Auckland. The next morning we left to go back to Sydney.