Lady Knox Geyser at Wai-O-Tapu
New Zealand Travelog #33
Waiotapu, NZ - Thu, 18 Apr 2024, 11am
This week we're traveling on the North Island of New Zealand. The framework of this leg of the trip is flying into Wellington in the south (we did that this past Monday), driving up to Auckland in the north, and depart for home from Auckland this coming Monday. We filled in plans for activities throughout the week by looking at things to do along the way from one city to the other.
One of the types of things that jumped out at us was geothermal spots,. There are a bunch of them in the region around Rotorua. We visited Te Puia near Rotorua yesterday (detailed blog still pending). Today we've backtracked a bit to the south to see Waiotapu.
Link: watch video on YouTube
One of the standout sights to see in Waiotapu, indeed one of the reasons we picked it, is the daily eruption of Lady Knox Geyser. The video above shows the daily show.
As you might gather from the commentary in the crawler I added, we were not that impressed. Yes, it's a geyser. But the eruption is a put-on show. It's tourist-trappy. And we're kind of allergic to tourist traps. ...Actually, allergic isn't so much the right description as "sneeringly disdainful". You can tell that from the crawler commentary, too. 🤣
Fortunately the rest of Wai-o-Tapu Thermal Wonderland is a legit tourist attraction and not a tourist trap. I'll share more video later.
Waiotapu, NZ - Thu, 18 Apr 2024, 11am
This week we're traveling on the North Island of New Zealand. The framework of this leg of the trip is flying into Wellington in the south (we did that this past Monday), driving up to Auckland in the north, and depart for home from Auckland this coming Monday. We filled in plans for activities throughout the week by looking at things to do along the way from one city to the other.
One of the types of things that jumped out at us was geothermal spots,. There are a bunch of them in the region around Rotorua. We visited Te Puia near Rotorua yesterday (detailed blog still pending). Today we've backtracked a bit to the south to see Waiotapu.
Click to viewLink: watch video on YouTube
One of the standout sights to see in Waiotapu, indeed one of the reasons we picked it, is the daily eruption of Lady Knox Geyser. The video above shows the daily show.
As you might gather from the commentary in the crawler I added, we were not that impressed. Yes, it's a geyser. But the eruption is a put-on show. It's tourist-trappy. And we're kind of allergic to tourist traps. ...Actually, allergic isn't so much the right description as "sneeringly disdainful". You can tell that from the crawler commentary, too. 🤣
Fortunately the rest of Wai-o-Tapu Thermal Wonderland is a legit tourist attraction and not a tourist trap. I'll share more video later.