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The next day after breakfast, we quickly drove to Waiotapu Thermal Wonderland to catch the daily daily eruption of the Lady Knox Geyser at 10.15am...

later we found out... it erupts daily at 10.15am due to some help my man... keh... if left to its own, the geyser would have erupted every 2-3 days... in an not so timely manner... they used normal powder detergent to drop in the geyser to loosen the surface tension of the geyser... and when the cold and hot water mixed underground... spurt... a geyser is formed for an hour plus....


we then took our time walking the shortest route around all the volcanic craters, sulphur pools and bubbling mud...


their famous attraction was also their champagne pool... which was boiling, with bubbles constantly rising to the surface... thus its name...


the pool also is beside a basin of dif metal excretions, giving it a very colorful effect...


heheh... do note all the steam rising out, do have a certain smell to them... sulphur smell... akin to rotten eggs... but u do get used to it after awhile...


we left heading back to Rotorua for lunch, then stopped by The Redwoods! It really was California Redwood trees... brought and planted by the early colonists... and man... they are mighty large... we walked around this public park cum reserve for about 40 minutes admiring the trees and then headed home to rest before our night Cultural Show!