MORE STEAM! WAIMANGU VALLEY, ROTORUA, NZ

Waimangu is the only hydrothermal system in the world the commencement of whose surface activity can be pinned down to an exact day, namely 10 June 1886. ON that day a violent volcanic eruption punctured the country in this locality with a series of craters and allowed geothermal fluid already present underground direct passages to the Earth.

The walk to the bottom of the valley takes approximately two hours and is mostly down hill, woohoo! AND, there is a bus to take you back to the top.