Auckland to Rotorua

We drove from Auckland to Rotorua today, stopping at Otorohanga for lunch. We also stopped at Waitomo, meaning "water entering a hole in the ground", home to an awesome underground world of limestone caves and formations and the spectacular Glowworm Grotto. Too dark in the caves to take pictures.

Rotorua is a city on the southern shores of the lake of the same name, in the Bay of Plenty area of the North Island of New Zealand. It is a place of Maori culture, hot springs and boiling mud pools. It has one of the world's most lively fields of geothermal activity and sits squarely on the Pacific Rim of Fire.