Friday, April 18, 2014

Rotorua, Blue Lake and Buried Village,


  4 April 2014
Blue Lake ......view from our Holiday Park.

View overlooking Lake Tarawera to volcano, Mt Tarawera

Painting of the White Terraces at Te Wairoa, where, pre 1886, tourists flocked to bathe in the warm pools
Photograph of the same terraces before the eruption of Mt Tarawera 8km away
An 1886 photo of Moura Village after the eruption, buried in mud
A whare in Te Wairoa buried in mud
Te Wairoa as it is today, partially excavated

A reconstructed whare/Maori home as it was in 1886

The excavated wheat storage facility
The walk to the falls is through lush forest

The beautiful Te Wairoa Falls below the Buried Village


Next we are on our way to Rotorua and its Museum which was once the world's first "water cure" clinic, treating injured soldiers after WW1
The Rotorua Museum
The gardener's cottage with manicured flower beds
Black swan on Lake Rotorua
Rachel-Spring and below......a bit of our own water therapy





























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