Passing through Tongariro National Park on the way to Rotorua.
Looking over Lake Taupo.
Lake Rotorua.
Bikes make a different Christmas tree in a park near the lake.
Looking over boiling waters at the extensive volcanic area of Wai-O-Tapu (Sacred Waters).
The Artist' Palette; hot and cold pools and steaming, hissing fumeroles.
The happy tourists; David, Jenny, Joy and Bill.
Bridal Falls.
The Champagne Pool. A fifth of a hectare of bubbling water with an ochre petrified edge.
Boiling mud.
In the evening we went to the Mitai Maori Village, Rainbow Springs, for a Maori cultural experience. It turned out to be both fun and informative. This is one of their ancient war canoes, a waka.
Maori warriors paddling a waka.
The stroke looks quite scary.
The cultural performance was both interesting and fun.
There was a lot of singing and dancing.
This man explained the significance of the tattoos.
After the performance, we had a delicious hangi, then we one a rather dark walk to a Maori village and along the river to see the glow worms.
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