Got a cab early in the morning to catch our bus to Rotorua. Another four hours on the bus. Arrived at the Rotorua bus station almost at noon. After settled up some stuff at the YHA, we went to the city. Rotorua is well-known as a sulphur city and its unique volcanic activity. It is world famous with the bubbling mud pools and explosive geysers. The town have this very distinct smell of a rotten egg and it is all over the town. You can see at some of the park, there were lots of fascinating geothermal landscape. I was a bit ‘cuak’ at first when I knew that the place had volcano eruption and stuff. Never ever thought that I would go to that such place. The Rotorua region was considered as the spiritual home for the Maori people and said to have been the first place of settlement for them.We thought that Rotorua might be a bit warmer because of its geothermal hot springs but it turned out to be as cold as other places. And it was raining at the evening. We had to run back to our place because it’s almost dark already. Before that, wandered around the city, and yeah…not bad for doing shopping too…As usual, after dinner, planning our next day plan….