轻松陶波 Taupo, NZ

基本上来到陶波 我们的行程已经变的很轻松了。其实这里的活动多得是，可以泛舟看峭壁上毛利族的雕刻，更可以尝试心跳一百的‘跳飞机’(sky diving)，不过通通都得看老天爷的‘脸色’，不是光有胆量就可以的。

我们参观了胡卡瀑布，Aratiatia水坝，还看了场戏呢！

Our itinerary became more relax when we arrived at Taupo.  In fact there are many activities for you to explore, like canoeing to see the Maori Carving on the cliff & even sky diving! But of course all have to depends on the weather, not only have 'gut' then you can do it ok...

We've took the Huka Falls river cruise, witnessed the Aratiatia Dam and had our very first movie here in NZ!

入口处和我们即将乘坐的船只
Entrance & the cruise that we're gonna ride on

两岸没有什么特别的景色直到我们靠近胡卡瀑布
Nothing much along the river until approaching Huka Falls

瀑布的水异常的清澈，船只在这里兜了三个圈，让我们有足够的时间欣赏和拍照呢。
The water of the falls are extremely clean, the cruise captain made 3 round turning here and we've got enough time to enjoy feel the falls and took photos.

游船结束大概10分钟左右就是水坝开闸的时间（就在附近），既然时间配合的刚刚好，当然不容错过咯。
After the cruise it was about time for the dam to open the gate, since the timing was so right, of course we shouldn't have missed it lo. 

开闸前一景，水会经过一座桥梁流到对面（右图）
Before the gate opening. The water is gonna fill up the rivers as shown in picture on the right.

第一次看，还是觉得蛮壮观的
It is kind of spectacular...

看，下游委婉弯曲的路线也变的清晰起来。。。
The zig zag way at downstream become more obvious after filling up by the waters...

晚上七点二十分竟然是最后一场电影，而且是没有座位分配的。呵呵呵，很不一样的体验哦！马来西亚的电影院其实是蛮有水准的。。。
Guess what? 7.20pm was the last show and it is FREE SEATING. Ya man, free seating! Hmn, lucky we still manage to secure some nice seats. According to my friend only few of the big cinema in the city has allocate seat when you bought the tickets woh...In fact, M'sia's cinemas are pretty cool!
We watched Pirates of the Carribean here... hehehe

双彩虹 Double Rainbow, NZ

哇！彩虹！双彩虹！哇。。。好清楚！哇哇哇哇！哇！哈哈哈。。。记得当时是这样的。哇到连后座昏着车浪的仁兄都被我们惊醒了，然后就很合拍的拿出他那超级相机‘ kicak kicak' 的狂拍。呵呵呵。。。
很久没有看到那么完整鲜艳的彩虹了，而且是双彩虹呢（听说双彩虹会带来幸运）！这一片人间净土，真的会唤起很多被遗忘的记忆和感觉。。。

Wah! Rainbow! Double Rainbow! Wah... so clear... see.. wah! wah wah wah wah wah! Hahahaha... that was how we reacted when we saw the double rainbow while driving... we 'wah' until the fellow who was suffering from car sick also awake... and immediately took his camera 'kicak kicak kicak' trying to help us took as much photos as possible ...

Couldn't remember for how long I didn't see such a wonderful, complete rainbow, and I was told that double rainbow brings luck! New Zealand, such a pure land that reminds me lot of forgotton memories and feelings...

感觉就像彩虹伴着我们奔驰一样，让人振奋。。。
Felt as if the rainbows are running with us, wonderful... 

那么的靠近！
So close!

嘿，一个转弯又变得在前方了。。。
Hei, one corner and its infront of us!

我是相信它真的带给我们幸运的，否则就看不到湯加里羅那震撼的景色了。。。

I truely believed that it brought us luck, otherwise, we wouldn't be able to see the magnificient view of Tongariro Crossing ... 

罗托鲁阿的地热谷 Wai-O-Tapu Thermal Wonderland, Rotorua

在罗托鲁瓦有不少地热谷，对比了资料和旅客的意见之下我们选着了参观这偏离市中心交远的Wai-O-Tapu地热谷。因为天气阴凉，所以我们慢慢的走，慢慢的参观，虽然没有太大的惊喜，但也好好的体会了这飘着浓浓的硫磺味的地热谷了。

There are few thermal lands in Rotorua, we choosed to visit Wai-O-Tapu after reading some info and visitors' commend.  It is slightly far from town compare to Te Puia. Weather was good, occasionally drizzling, we strolling along the land and let the sulfur smoked us for hours...Not much big surprise but still a good experience :)    

我们在上午十点前到达以一睹‘诺克斯夫人’喷泉在十点十五分左右的喷发。。。
Arrived before 10am to see the Lady Knox geyser eruption @ 10.15am. Nobody was there when we arrived...

还以为喷泉会定时喷发是自然现象（还‘老点’朋友一轮呢， 呵呵。。。），原来是工作人员放了些肥皂状的东西让她准时‘吐沫’的。。。呵呵呵呵。。。顺道一题
I thought it was natural phenomenon that the geyser will erupt everyday by 10.15am...hehe... but actually it was because of the staff put some soap like thing inside the geyser that make her 'puke'... :P

右图这道桥是吸引我到访的原因之一，可以从这热腾腾冒烟的热湖上走过，感觉很妙哦。
The bridge that allowed me to walk through the thermal pond is one of the reason that attracts me here. It's kind of a different experience...

如果天气好一点的话，这香槟湖就会更加出色。可能个人对香槟的特别钟爱吧，不能很清楚的看到湖的景色，觉得有点遗憾呢。。。
If the weather can be of better, this champagne pool would be able to seen much more clearer. But I still like the colour of it... maybe because I love champagne? :P

谷中的松树林，给人一种雍容自在的感觉。。。虽然树林的步到不太长，但是却让人怀念。。。
Pine wood in the thermal land, the path was not to long but kind of missing it...

惊鸿一瞥，记得小学时很喜欢把蘑菇涂上这个鲜艳的颜色，想不到现在活生生的呈现在眼前，呵呵。。。
I used to coloured the mushroom with this colour when I was young, and now that I've seen the real one....

回程时再经过香槟湖，这时，天空已经开始下起雨了。。。
Bypassing the champagne pool again when we are on the way out, the sky was drizzling by now... 

泥浆湖，应该蛮烫的吧。。。
Mud Pool, shall be very hot eh?

要提一提的就是，泥浆湖、喷泉和地热谷带有一定的距离，步行从一点到另一点可能需要很长的时间哦。

The mud pool, geyser and the thermal land has a certain distance that you may want to drive from one point to antoher ... 

特色小镇之 Tirau ~ A Unique Small Town

Tirau 是个很漂亮的小镇，根据网络资料，镇上只有大概700多人，以农业为主（Tirau在毛利语里为‘一个很多朱蕉的地方’。
波纹铁是这里的特色，从旅游咨询中心到餐厅小店，都可以看到他们用这特别的波纹铁做招牌或装饰。我们在这里荡了好一会儿，还买了件特价寒衣呢！记载以下，在这里，看到好多小朋友都不爱穿鞋子的。。。
Tirau, a very small but beautiful town. According to the information from internet, the town has approximately 700++ populations, and basically its a farming town. In Maori, Tirau means "place of many cabbage trees (Cordyline Australis)."
 
Corrugated Iron deco is another uniqness in Tirau. From the i-Site to the restaurant to shops, you can see a lot of these beautiful and special corrugated iron.. We walked and shops and had our lunch here... it's just so relaxing. Besides, we saw quite a lot of kids not wearing their shoes here...

波纹铁绵羊商店，够特别吧？？
Isn't it special? This is one of the shop that next to i-Site

这是旅游咨询中心。。。
Tirau's i-Site

其中一家餐厅，那猪仔很可爱下。。。
One of the restaurant... the swine pretty cute :P




很庆幸在回程时有机会绕过这小镇，虽然错失了其中几个，不过能看到这么一个特色小镇，也很满足了。。。
Felt so lucky that we've got a chance to stop by this small little beautiful town (tho we've missed out few others in our planned route), I can still feel the tranquility ...

农宿 Big Bird B&B Farm Stay @ Otorohanga

我们在这里留宿两天，一来这里靠近游绳的地方，二来因为同行的朋友没有住过农宿，所以游绳后的第二天我们可以好好体验下这农场的生活。主人家很热情，地方超干净而且细心观察可以看到他们用了许多再循环布置，别出新裁。。。值得推荐！

We stayed here for 2 nights as it is nearby the abseiling+glowworms cave, and we can experience the farm stay on the next day. Our host Ann is very friendly & she kept the place clean & tidy that I felt so comfortable just like in my own house... I will definitely recommend this if you wish to have a good experience of farm stay.

Quite easy to spot from main road.

住宿的环境都可以看到经营者的用心。用破烂的鞋子种花，是我的小梦想之一！
Can see the time and efforts that Ann & Ross put in this farm house. Using an unwanted shoes to plant is one of my small little dream!  

房间很舒适，暖气又够，还有架小小电视机呢。
This is where we stayed. Got one extra single bed somemore...its cozy and tidy and warm!

农场游记开始！
Here comes our farm tour!

小型的马种，小朋友可以骑哦。还有许多小动物等着我们喂呢。。。
Miniature horse, the kids can ride of it oh. There are many more animals awaiting for us to feed them!

以前我是很抗拒触碰动物的（觉得有异味），不知何时突然明白到自己的手分分钟脏几万倍。。。
For once I was very resist to touch animals (felt that there are always some strange smell), then donno since when hor, I suddenly understand that my hand could have been even more dirty than any of them...

这四只家伙出场时还真的蛮有形的叻！我还是第一次看到Llama呢！
First time saw Llama (till then only I know there is such creature call Llama ==')! They marked their debut in a cool way...hahahahah 

林肯好俊哦！那一头卷发想必迷死不少粉丝。。。呵呵呵。。。喂食完毕还给了我们一个亲吻呢！
Look at Lincon's curly hair! Damn, he is so handsome! He gaves Ann and myself a kiss after we finished feeding him!

这农场真的好大，不容易经营啊！
The farm is really huge! And seriously its not easy to run and maintain it... Salute to Ann & Ross!

嘿，还有机会牧牛呢！
Participating and helping Ann to move the barrier so that the calfs have more grass to eat!

笨鸟地带，呵呵。。。走进一点阿，那笨鸟就开始扇动翅膀，示意你别太靠近它的女友哦！
Ostrich's territory. The big bird was flapping his wings to warn you not getting to near of his gf!

这几只小家伙是前一晚在外游荡没回家的。。。在马来西亚可能连‘渣’都没有的剩，别指望把它们找回来。。。
These 3 little one were loitering outside a night before, Ann get them back home the next day morning. In M'sia, probably already gone case...

帮忙邻居‘除草’。。。哈哈哈。。。真的是一举两得。。。
Helping the neighbour to 'manage' their grass :P

他们有好多豚鼠！而且笼子是自己盖的哦。。。可爱死了。。。
They've got so many guinea pigs! Oh my, and Ross made the cage himself! They are really cute!

很棒的经验，怀念那青葱的草原，无争的环境，清新的空气。。。
A very great experience, missing the grassland, the pure air, and the stress free environment...

罗托鲁阿跳楼记 'Jump Floor' Experience @ Agroventures, Rotorua

话说在罗托鲁阿的第二天天气还不错，所以参观了温泉谷后我们就往这Agroventures去刺激刺激神经了。至于为什么说跳楼，看看就知道。。。

Second day at Rotorua the weather was so much better, not too sunny even drizzling from time to time, but we still able to visit the thermal wonderland and proceed to this excited Agroventures games. Our very first 'jump floor' experience...

我们的配套呢，是5选3，还记得我们但是大小声的说：“我们不要笨猪跳啦，就选sweep, swoop 和 freefalls 好了。” 唉，谁知道那个swoop阿，和笨猪没什么两样哩 ==||
We can choose 3 out of 5 games here (Bungy, Sweep, Swoop, Freefalls & Agro Jet)
"No Bungy we don't want Bungy, ok lets do sweep swoop & freefals," We said.  Then it turned out that the Swoop is just so similar with Bungy lah aiyoo... ==||  

强颜欢笑。。。
Forcing a smile...

开始质问自己为什么要虐待自己的神经。。。
Starting to question ourselves why we wanna torture our nerves in such way...

这时候我们开始看那些绳索是不是安全有没有要‘断线’的痕迹（虽然有点太迟。。。），汗颜 ==||
At this point of time, we started to check if the wire and the ropes are all OK, another sweat ==||

和铁杆平行时，地面的工作人员给指示：“OK 老兄你可以把绳索放开了！”下一秒钟，除了惊叫。。。还是惊叫。。。啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊！！！！！！！！！！！
Until we were at the same height with the poles, the crew at the ground shouted 'Alright, you can release the rope now...', and the next secs what we all did were just scream scream and scream! AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

哎哟。。。怕到，打死都没有下次 >_<||  难怪人家讲 ‘难得糊涂’，如果一开始我知道是这样的，根本就没有勇气玩啦，无端端去跳楼，真的是。。。
Walau, really freak me out! No next time no next time! Seriously, if I were to know it was like this ah, no way man, I definitely no courage to play! No wonder people said sometimes its 'good to be blur'... grrrr....

这个很酷哦（那强风恰恰可以镇静神经）。只要可以保持平衡和做对指示，工作人员就可以帮你完成所有特技动作哦！
Hehe, this one is cool (and cold, hehe just nice to calm ourself after the swoop) ! All you need to do is to keep the body balance & follow the instruction properly, then the crew will help you get all the stunt actions done!

成功！Done!

第三项，还以为是最容易的岂知它竟然是最考体力的！要拼命的踩三个圈这‘子弹形’单车才会自动行驶1-2圈叻！脚都软。。。
Third games of the day, thought it's the easiest one yet it turned out to be the most tiring one! Gotto cycling 3 laps only the 'capsules'  

这位仁兄自己跟自己比赛咯。。。呵呵。。。
Hehe, he gotto race with himself since there were only 3 of us :P

不是搞笑的哦，我可是创了女子记录叻！
Don't play play ah, I made the record of the lady oh! Muahahaha

下次有机会可以来试一试，我是觉得蛮不错的哦！
I would recommend this activities if you were to visit Rotorua and have got extra time :)