Gudrun's photos with the keyword: Rotorua

Ōhinemutu is a village of the Ngāti Whakaue tribe on the shores of Lake Rotorua and preceded the town of Rotorua of which it is now a suburb. Ōhinemutu is also a thermal area and it can happen that people wake up to a new thermal feature in their backyard;-) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohinemutu

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Pohutu is the largest geyser in the Southern hemisphere. It's on a sinter plateau (geyser flat) in Whakarewarewa thermal valley and erupts regularly (at least once an hour) to a height of appr. 30m. The small geyser to the left is called Prince of Wales Feathers and usually precedes Pohutu. www.tepuia.com/new-zealand/geothermal-valley en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whakarewarewa

Motutara Island is a tiny island at the NW end of Sulphur Bay, Lake Rotorua. It is a wildlife refuge with plenty of nesting birds (here just cormorants and gulls). Lake Rotorua was formed ca. 220.000 years ago, when following an ignimbrite eruption, the collapsed caldera filled with water. Sulphur Bay