Rotorua is known for different things depending on who you ask. Tourists would tell you about the alpine slide, the "Zorb" (a big inflated hamster ball that you can roll down hills in), other various adrenaline activities, or the thermal pools and geysers. Most of my friends would focus on the forest full of world-famous mountain bike trails.
Any New Zealander you ask will tell you that Rotorua stinks. Yes, stinks. The whole area is so full of thermal pools, hot pots, geysers etc, that you can smell that rotten-egg-sulfury smell pretty much everywhere. Still, it's such an amazing place that people go anyway.
Although we did some of the classic things, many of the best moments of our trip weren't on the major attractions:
An awesome waterfall hike...
I took the pic on the right after climbing over a barbwire fence and a bunch of thistles to lay right on the edge of the falls :D it was soooo worth it!
Playing volleyball every time we stopped anywhere...
Playing a lot of VERY competitive family Boggle :)
Getting up at 6:30am to watch Germany's soccer world cup win over Argentina in McDonald's :D
And many other random moments.
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| Sagie fell asleep in the overhead compartment of our van during a late night family card game :D |
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