The neighbour's sheep
We drive up 10mins to Hamurana Springs
Rotorua Lake
Ohinemutu Maori Village
It is very windy here, we can see lots of smoke and smell of sulphur here in Rotorua.
St Faith's Church
GG learning to pay for car park.
12mins for $0.20
30mins for $0.50
1hr 15mins drive to Huka Falls.
Cloudy day and drizzling whole day.
Huka Falls
The Waikato River system produce 15% of New Zealand's power.
About 200,000litres of water plunge nine metres over the great rock face of Huka Falls every second- that's enough to fill 5 Olympic swimming pools every minute. Such a momentous flow of water creates a DANGEROUS UNDERTOW at the bottom of the falls. This has claimed the craft of many river users foolhardy enough to try to navigate the falls.
Upstream of the falls, the Waikato is clear and reflective. After plunging over the falls it picks up masses of tumbling air bubbles which create breathtaking colours and give the falls their name, after the Maori word for "foam".
The flow over the falls is so strong it prevents the upstream migration of trout and native fish such as eels which is why there are no eels to be found in Lake Taupo.
It is colder here, another 15mins drive we reached Lake Taupo.
We had lunch in KFC
The weather is not good, another 1hr drive to Tongariro National Park.
We reached around 5pm, it is getting dark and low visibility, raining whole day.
We got a corner unit, supposing a good view unit but we can't see anything...
$155p/night
Superior room with a connecting room.
The heater don't work very well here, we are freezing cold during the night.
The temperature probably had drop to 2 degree.
Our balcony
Supposing can view Mt Ruapehu from here.
Restaurant order taking only from 6.30-7.30pm
Confit leg of duck on a white bean and sausage cassoulet served with winter greens $32
Slow cooked Lamb shank,potatoes dauphinoise,winter greens and rosemary jus $29.50
Shoe-string fries with parmesan truffle oil $5.50
Buttermilk panna cotta,mixed berry compote with vanilla shortbread
Complimentary from hotel
This is the warmest place.
After dinner, we went back for a shower and came back around 9.40pm. The bar and restaurant already closed.
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