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 ... 

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 :)

The Museum, Polynesian Spa & Hells Gate @ Rotorua

当我们从Tongariro National Park 启程到Rotorua时，一路上天气是阴暗的（如同天气预测一样），还下雨呢。抵达目的地的游客中心，拿了我们要的活动配套，还是下雨（结果下了一整天的雨），所以我们就往博物馆避雨顺道参观参观。。。呵呵。。。然后就泡了好几个小时的温泉。人生的第一次温泉啊！爽！
When we left Tongariro National Park in the morning for Rotorua, the weather was a bit gloomy. We reached Rotorua and it was raining. It almost rain the whole day! So what did we do? After we checked out the i-Site, grabbed the tickets of the activities, and started our itinerary that suits the rainy day – Museum & Spa!

下雨啊，大家都没拿相机出来，这是博物馆网页下载的。博物馆不大，最令人印象深刻的就是那小小电影院，讲述毛利人的祖先如何来到新西兰，火山爆发时椅子会跟着摇晃的叻！（我们觉得厉害因为那迷你电影院看起来有点陈旧，没想到有这等现场效果，呵呵呵）
We didn't take out the camera due to rain, so this photo taken from the museum's website :) Museum itself is not huge, and the mini cinema that shows how the Maori settle down in New Zealand impressed me the most. The chairs will move and shake in line with the movie's story (volcano explode...)

逛了博物馆后还是下着雨，可能老天也觉得我们该休息休息，暂且告别户外活动，所以我们也‘顺应天命’，泡温泉去了！我们选了Deluxe Lake Spa，有四个不同温度的池让顾客浸泡，虽然放眼望去并无什么特别的美景，不过还是很舒服的。此时天空下着雨，冷冷的雨水打在脸上，顿时让那被熏得昏昏的脑袋清醒过来。。。
一泡就是好几个小时，那硫磺的味道久久挥之不去。。。
It was still raining after we finished exploring the Museum, probably God want us to take some rest and no outdoor activities today. Hehe, so we went to Polynesian Spa to try out the hot pool spa! We took the Deluxe Lake Spa package whereby there are 4 different temperature's pool for you to immerse in it. Felt so good when the cold cold rain dropped on my face while body was warm... we were here for few hours, so long until we can still smell the sulphur few days after :P

第二天傍晚因为没什么事情做所以我们就跑去试一试这‘泥泉’以‘定惊’（至于惊什么嘛，下回分晓）。这里贵多了，而且地方比较小，又只有一间更衣室，如果是多人的话应该要排长龙等着梳洗。原来泥泉不是我们想象中那么浓稠的，呵呵，要从池底把泥捞起来再‘贴’在脸和身上。。。最厉害的是，浸完泥泉后得冲冷水把身体冲干净才能去普通的温泉，真的是冷到...
Well we did this on the 2nd night @ Rotorua after our extreme daily activities (to share in the next post). We went to Hells Gate for its mud pool spa. But it didnt turn out to be so nice as the Polynesian Spa and its pretty costly. Lucky it was low peak season, otherwise, I guess their relatively small size of pool and only 1 fitting room facilities might not be able to cater for large volumes of visitors. The mud pool was not like how we imagine it (full of thick sticky mud :P ) the mud was laying on the bottom of the pool that u need to 'grab' it to put it on your face etc etc  :P

因为时间和天气的关系，我们没能去乘筏子，留待下次咯！呵呵。。。这里的‘国际青年旅馆’(YHA) 棒极了，以后背包旅行都会考虑这旅馆，超有水准又不贵，非常值得推荐哦！

Due to weather & limited timing, we did not try the white water rafting here (good reason to re-visit huh? :P) Gotto mentioned a bit about the YHA Backpacker Hostel here, its really of great value, clean & nicely setup, I will definitely consider YHA if I ever backpacking again!