Today we explored Hells Gate in Rotorua with lots of geothermal activity. We saw boiling hot pools bubbling and steaming, pools of mud boiling, a mud volcano and smelt lots of sulphur. The place was very well run like all of the tourist spots we have been to in New Zealand so far. It started with an hour and a half walk through a landscape that looked like it could have been a scene from a movie about Hell! We saw waterfalls which were a pleasant 38 degrees, and hot pools of mud bubbling at 100 degrees. There was also a pool called the steaming cliffs where the water was 122 degrees C at the surface and 145 degrees C just a metre below the surface. Some of these pools, despite the black water and awful smell, can be used to cook food and apparently do not taint it at all. The Cooking Pool would cook a pig in about 2 hours! After exploring we had a nice soak in the medicinal sulphur water spa and played in the medicinal mud!
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