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Rotorua thermal areas
Whakarewarewa

is the best known of Rotoruas thermal resorts right on the outskirts of Rotorua. The extensive active area has silica terraces, bubbly mud pools, boiling springs and geysers including the famous Pohutu Geyser. Maori villages use the hot water for bathing, cooking, washing and heating. Whakarewarewa Thermal reserve also incorporates the New Zealand Maori Arts and Crafts Institute where young men and women of Maori descent are taught the arts and crafts of their ancestors.
Wai-o-tapu Thermal Wonderland

is New Zealands most colourful and diverse geothermal areas just 27kms south of Rotorua. Spectacular volcanic features are found all through the park. The ´Champagne Pool´ pictured, is a vast clear spring that has clouds of steam swirling over what looks like emerald bubbly punctuated with an iridescent orange (antimony) rim.
Raupara Watergardens
Boiling mud at Wai-o-tapu

- Constant plopping of mud with the occasional explosion of flying globs thrown everywhere.
Waimangu Volcanic Valley

was formed by the 1886 Tarawera eruption. It is the only hydrothermal system in the world wholly formed within historic times as a result of Volcanic eruption. Today you can walk through the craters of Waimangu Volcanic valley and take the boat cruise on the crater Lake Rotomahana to view the amazing geothermal activity and very important botany. See the worlds largest hot water spring.
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