Locations

Thursday, March 06, 2014

Rotorua base

Already 4 months passed since moving to little Rotorua, the rotten egg capital of New Zealand. It is a nice Maori culture driven town, that has been blessed of heaps of volcanic activity. On daily basis - when volcanoes are not going off - this means a lot a steam and geysers all around the town with a side effect of the very distinct sulphuric smell.
So this is what we have managed to see in this tourism crazy town.

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Some big trees around here, attracting lots of tree huggers, literally!

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Then there are all the different types of ferns around, hundreds.

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Thermal activity, boiling water, splashing mud, and last major volcano eruption in 1886

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Not pollution, or at least this is what we are supposed to believe. All the underground activity brings some amazing colours to some of the water holes.

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Our home lake - Rotorua Lake

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I believe Maori guys. Or Pacific Islanders.

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Market day

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Local style fences

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Strong feel of colonial style architecture, this one is very little decorated and in shady state. Usually the houses are well maintained, even though the overall construction quality is shocking - no isolation, single windows, wind blowing through cracks. Lets see how the winter will be.

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Another style of living - in stationary caravan

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Some German style presented, initially built as mud bath, nowadays Rotorua Museum.

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Our little house looking over the town.

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15 meters of underwater drop, 10 degrees C water emerging from rocky hole, of course some crazy guys found it as a suitable water jumping hole.

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One of the reasons of selecting Rotorua as the base - possibly the best mountain biking tracks in New Zealand. Back on the sports bike after almost 6 years of break.

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And the heavy mountain bike climbs can be sometimes very rewarding. 1hrs of climb and views like this.

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One more little curious girl has joined here, even forgetting the food, if there is possibility to have a quick look around  

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