Day 137 Rotorua, New Zealand

Kuirau Park

Kuirau Park

Kuirau Park

Luge Track

Cable Cars

At last the sun was shining and the forecast was the next 3 days were going to be fairly warm and sunny. Most of the day was spent at Skyline Skyrides where a gondola or cable car takes you up at mountain and here we had a great laugh racing down the 3 luge tracks they have on 3 wheeled carts. After 5 runs down the luge tracks and then the cable car back to the car park we went for a walk around Kuirau Park which is an area of volcanic activity. The most recent eruption here was in 2003 and hot mud covered most of the park and trees. It has a crater lake, pools of boiling mud, steam and mineral baths and also the rotten egg smells that go with it.