Return to Rotorua

This is the first of three blog posts about the Rotorua area, a thermal region with many lakes and an abundance of M��ori culture, which I revisited in January 2022. I talk about the city first. Then, in my next post, I talk about the thermal area of Te Puia or Whakarewarewa, Rotorua's Redwoods Treewalk, and a visit to the ��kere Falls. In the third one I climb Mount Tarawera, travel to Lake Tarawera and visit the amazing buried village of Te Wairoa, a colonial Pompeii frozen in 1886.