What else tot tell about Aoteraora?

We enjoy our stay very much, rest a lot, following the rythme of the life there: slow and unstressed.

The warmth is fine, it rained only three times in three weeks, but it rained then cats and dogs in the cities of Auckland (bij arriving and departing) and in Rotorua. The rain doesn’t feel cold, but still it’s unpleasant without a raincoat or an umbrella, so I had to buy one indeed (a kiwiumbrella!)

The hotsprings are my favourite, they flow through the landscape, you can scent (?) it: it smells very bad because of the sulfur inside them! When you are driving or walking in the aera of Rotorua, you can see everywhere fumeroles (it’s a vulcanic aera), in the city they appear too. It looks like a white cloud above the land. Bathing and relaxing in the many hot pools are my favourite occupations all over the day and in the very beginning of the night (they are open till 9.pm!) breathe it, scent it, hear it, see it, experience it: that is the motto of the hot thermal bathes in the Wahikiti Valley near Rotorua, the are in the camper aera, you ave only to pay 20NZ$ all included (place and bathes the hole day), i’sapproximatively 12 € (it depends on the course (?) / value of the money of course!)

I think that this is the reason why the Maori New Zealand  called Aoteraora and still do now: the country / land of the white wolk.

It is now 4.am I'm writing down this experience(s) and meanings / explanations – sometimes from my own mind, it doesn’t also need to be true at all. I get tired (at home it is 4.pm the day before.)

See you again!