Next stop was a smelly town called Rotorua. The reason for its unusual odour was seen everywhere. The area was all geothermal, meaning the Earth's Crust underneath is not as thick as it is in other places around the world and so the heat from under the ground seeps out and causes: boiling pools, steaming rivers and bubbling mud pools! The smell was due to the sulphurous gases that also creep out the ground...smells like egg - which you got used to, it just made us want egg mayonaise sandwiches really badly!
All the geothermal areas by the Lake Rotorua, the steam holes and heat pools in Kuirau park were really pretty but also quite errie - with all that steam hanging in the air...great for photos though!
All the geothermal areas by the Lake Rotorua, the steam holes and heat pools in Kuirau park were really pretty but also quite errie - with all that steam hanging in the air...great for photos though!
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