Started of the day quite leisurely this morning with an full cooked breakfast in the centre of Taupo in an Irish pub (they really do get everywhere). Next stop just a short 50 mile drive to Rotorua, booked in for a couple of nights at one of the Top 10 camps and headed out to our first stop, Te Puia, which is basically a walk through a number of large boiling mud pools and spouting geysers. All very nice and some decent size things to see rather than what we witnessed yesterday. In fact we ended spending around 4 hours there so quite a big place.

Dinner was out tonight at a local restaurant, Li had some amazing pulled pork whilst I reached for the lamb again; both good choices. Returning back the the camp we headed straight to the outdoor thermal mineral pools. Something quite nice about laying there in the dark, just watching the stars in 40 degrees water…..unfortunately, we had to take Rebecca, so nice yes; relaxing, of course not! Quick shower, bottle of wine…all good really

Tony