Rotorua: My Favorite Kiwi

cityscape rotorua new zealand

It’s oh so quiet in this New Zealand countryside town. Might have to do with me visiting in the winter (their’s, not mine), as the place fills up to the brim in the summer time, according to my sources 🙂 It kind of feels like a big city because it’s spread out, but in reality it’s not. There are a couple of different areas to go for a stroll, but my hands down favourite was the lakefront. I started my walk at the Government Gardens. I then turned left and continued on along the shores of Lake Rotorua, through the Lakefront Reserve, and over to the Maori living village, Ohinemutu. From there I turned inland, and bumped into the big, but not too exciting, geothermal Kuirau Park, which surprisingly turned out to be in the backyard of my hostel. A recommended, circular stroll. Without a doubt Rotorua was the best place I stayed at on my visit to New Zealand, and I should have chosen to spend more time here, and excluded Wellington and Auckland, because NZ countryside is the best! The two girls I befriended at the hostel said they had some up to no good people following them one evening, but I was lucky to never encounter any of that.

Website: rotoruanz.com

Note: Photos are by Nelson Pérez (#1) and me (#2).

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Boiling mud @ Kuirau Park

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