Viv kindly drove us down to Rotorua. We stopped at a park for a wee picnic, the bonus being that the park itself had mudpools and steam coming out of the ground. It was like having lots of kettles boiling at once. We also went to one park which shut at 4pm and we arrived at 5pm so we had a look at the free mudpools (well cool) and then went onto Hells Gate which was fantastic and aptly described!
We took a coach to the Waitomo glowworm caves (3 hours out of Rotorua). Pretty cool. There's a walk and a boat ride. The gloworms (and there are thousands of them) drop down lines of silk and hope to attract insects flying into to them by use of the bio luminsense of their tails. No photography was allowed, hence the lack of photos.
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