• Champagne Pool
  • Artist's Palette
  • Champagne Pool

The area around Rotorua is known for thermal hot springs, streams, and geysers, and the rock formations they produce.  The one I visited at Wai-O-Tapu has the most astonishing colors of water from various kinds of minerals.  

  • Artist's Palette
  • Frying Pan Flats
  • Deveils Bath

South of Rotorua is huge and beautiful Lake Taupo. I saw it overcast, in a pensive mood.  Further south, the clouds broke up into sky-spanning configurations over a dry plain ringed with mountains.

  • Lake Taupo - near Hatepe