After Mt Manganui and the glow worms, we started to drive to Rotorua. It is quite easy to find, just follow your nose... 😂 It is a very smelly city because of the thermal activity. We hadn't found any accommodation for our stay there so the first thing was to find a good and cheap hostel. We had to go to few places before we found one with vacancy. Almost every place was fully booked. Luckily Planet backpacker hostel which we found, was both good and NZ-cheap so we took it. We were a bit early, so we couldn't check in before 2pm. It was a good opportunity to go for a walk to Kuirau park. It is in the center and free. It is full of steaming craters, mud pools and other thermal activity. We dipped our feet to a hot (just warm) pool for a while. Edda didn't like the smell that much, or she hated it so we didn't stay too long in the park.
Smelly mud pools
