Thursday, December 27, 2012

New Zealand Day 3: The Tour

Today we had a jam packed journey throughout Rotorua, New Zealand. Starting with a Māori village, Tapo ra, we witnessed a performance by the locals as well as watching my father try out the moves himself. We also got to check out a really massive geezer but I couldn’t really enjoy it because of its terrible smell of sulfur and silica. After checking out a bubbling grey mud pool, we went to another natural park. We saw vivid lakes of different colors, each deriving from a different mineral. Neon green was sulfur, reddish orange is iron, and white is silica.  According to my mother, this was the best thing she has ever seen, but I was again blinded with the horrid smell of golfer. Then we went to the argodome, where we saw nineteen different types of sheep ranging from merino to black Romney. Finishing off the days adventures, we went to do probably one of the coolest things I have ever done, the org. This is a big ball what you sit in with water at the bottom, when you are pushed down the hill and you roll around in the ball on your way down. Once we got back to the lodge we just crashed and watched some classic Man vs. Wild episodes about New Zealand! 

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