Walking In A Geothermal Wonderland | Wai O Tapu, Rotorua | Reveal NZ Ep.04
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ก.ค. 2024
- Rotorua is the home of mud pools, hot springs and geothermal parks in New Zealand. We're off to Wai O Tapu Thermal Wonderland to check out Lady Knox Geyser and the geothermal activity. Check out Waiotapu tickets here - geni.us/gTLB ⬇ More Below ⬇
Rotorua is a must visit spot in New Zealand, there's plenty of different mud pools and geysers to be seen at the various geothermal park setups around town. One of the more popular ones to visit is Wai O Tapu Thermal Wonderland - known for the famous Champagne Pools and Lady Knox geyser as well - so we knew we'd need to go check it out.
As you walk around Waiotapu you're basically surrounded by geothermal activity everywhere you look. There's a few different walks you can talk to explore, which is kind of nice to combine a little bit of activity with scoping out mud pools and geysers as well. Which ever walk you take, they all centre around one of the main attractions, the Champagne Pools, which changes colour on the daily and is crazy unique to see (if you can through the fog).
One thing to note, Lady Knox Geyser actually is a decent walk or a short drive away from the main carpark, so you need to drive up and park and leave enough time to already have your tickets to Wai O Tapu Thermal Wonderland BEFORE you head up to see Lady Knox. If you're Rotorua bound just keep that in mind, always allow enough time for tickets and getting to the right spot in time!
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The end of this vid has a little sneak peek of some footage we haven't shown yet 😵 IT. WAS. EPIC.
the audio from the GoPro is on point!
@@mykabe we sometimes use our other camera to audio - the gopro doesnt usually do a very good job.
@@DanegerAndStacey oh thanks for the clarification :) just shows you put extra effort to your vlogs which people don't often get to see.
I have been to your lovely country in 1986 and i truly loved it and will never forget it.
This is a really cool series, it is certainly bringing back memories of my 3 month trip around New Zealand in 1998!!!!
We're so happy to hear that! Wow, bet things were a little different in '98! Definitely no one wearing masks... haha
Idk why but the mud pools looks so comforting 😅😅
Haha they do, don't they!
Nothing to say here only another brilliant video,📹👍👏😘love from 🇮🇪💚🍀😘
Thank you! Sending love back to Ireland 😁
I love how both informative and beautiful this video is.
Thank you 😁
Another fantastic one guys,keep it up love it.
Thanks Georgie, love seeing your comments come up! ❤️
You guys are bloody awesome people!!! Love watching you guys tour around NZ. It’s totally reminding me that I need to visit these spots a lot more often!!
Aww thanks Sam! We appreciate the love ❤️
This is one of my favorite areas In New Zealand I grew up around here and my scouts group was the Wai O Tapu scouts group.
That’s awesome! Thanks for watching.
Wai O Tapu is such beautiful
Amazing place
Very special!
This place reminds me of Yellowstone National Park in the USA!!!! I highly recommend!
Aww we would absolutely LOVE to visit Yellowstone, that's definitely on our list!
Travelling vicariously, loving these videos, can't wait to travel again. thanks
Looks incredible
Thank you for showing your beautiful country. It’s on my bucket list!
Sending love to you both from UK 🇬🇧
We hope you get to visit someday! Sending love right back to the UK!
loved this video, you really captured the amazing colours and atmosphere there as best as you could.
Thank you! 😁
Cool vlog! Keep up the good work and keep creating 🙏😊 All the best!
You two are just TOO cute!!! Awesome videos!!!
Thank you!! 😊
Awesome videos! Keep up the amazing work from Christchurch!
Thanks Matt! Hope you're keeping safe & well down in chch! 😁
great videos guys love them
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Thank you 😁
Wonderful! I can almost smell it from my desk - Lol. I remember what the intense smell of sulfur is like. Thanks for sharing and enjoy your weekend 😀👍
Haha wish we could share the smell with you! Thank you for watching 😁
I went to Rotorua for the first time a couple of years ago for my birthday and adored it 💖 I could like there for sure, even with the smell
What an awesome place to spend your birthday! So many amazing things to do there!
Best channel on TH-cam. Keep up the good work👍👍👍
Oh we LOVE hearing this, thank you 😁
WOW, just discovered your great channel! Best regards from Germany
Welcome to the channel! Thanks for following along with our adventures 😁
That sulphurous smell in Rotorua is definitely something I won't forget in a hurry 😅
Same 😂
Amazing breakdown of waiotapu! We were there for 2 weeks to cover both islands.. so it was very much a touch and go along the way! You definitely have much more fun with 5 weeks ☺️
2 weeks is better than no weeks! Even 5 didn't really feel like long enough.
An absolutely amazing location! This campervan tour is really allowing you the freedom to explore. That and escaping toilets 😂😂
We're loving every minute of it! Apart from the toilet trying to escape 😂
Wonderful video! Felt like I was there (minus the sulphur smell). We had the pleasure of road tripping the North Island earlier this year and enjoyed our time in Rotorua. Can’t wait to edit those videos soon. Hope your back gets better soon, Dane. Stay safe and take care.
Oh awesome! Hope you enjoyed your time in Rotorua as much as we did, no doubt your videos will be great! Thanks for the well wishes 😁
Nz is beautiful you have so diverse nature and have your NZ version of Yellowstone x
I’m a kiwi whose lived in the UK for nearly 15 years and it’s so great to see NZ like this 😄 hoping to become a tourist the next time I’m home, there’s just no place like it!
There's something so special about seeing it through a tourists eyes! We definitely appreciate NZ even more after being away for a couple of years. Hope you get to come back home soon 😁
One video I was waiting for before I get in my dream land. Lots of love from Uganda .
We hope you enjoyed it! Sending love back to Uganda!
I feel for you Dane 🧡 All our travels have been done with me in extreme pain. It's so hard some days not being able to do everything I want, some days I don't know how I do it....then I realize travel is my passion. Funny how we manage to adapt to do things we love with people we love. We have sulfur hot springs here in British Columbia you can swim in. They feel good but you smell after lol -Shawna🍁
Aw we're so sorry to hear that! Totally agree with what you said though!
I seem to be bathed in reminders of my trip away to Rotovegas last year - right at this time. I took the Waio-tapu-o trip with a mini tour - that including the Lady Knox Geyser -- the sitting was packed out with dozens of mainly tourists. Now the tourists will be mostly our own, I guess. I've got some stunning photos which I took on my phone...but they are many like you would've got, brilliant mud, colour and steam...
Sounds like an awesome trip to Rotovegas! Pretty crazy to be at such a popular tourist attraction and being surrounded by familiar Kiwi accents!
Hello we hope you are well . thank you for taking us around .i want to live in hobbit town . and i have always wanted to go zorbing . looks like you had a great time . take care and keep safe love and light Sarah and Glenn
Thanks guys, same to you! We hope you get to tick those things off your bucketlist soon 😁
Marmite and chip sandwich fan!! 😆😋 Me too! Haha
You can't beat a good old marmite and chippie sammich!
We really enjoy Rotorua, the smell not so much. Although you hardly notice it after a while.
Haha very true!
There is free geothermal activity in the city at Kuirau Park as well,and there are also the Polynesian pools right in the city.
Polynesian Spa episode is coming soon 😁
Thank You for the cool video! How lucky are you guys to live in a place that people only dream of going? Looking forward to your next video!
Very lucky! We just posted a new video this morning, hope you enjoy it 😁
@@DanegerAndStacey Thanks! About to watch it now!
I did not know Dane is colorblind. God I wish he is seeing all the colors in the place
I really need to try some of those glasses and get a feel for what I'm missing!
What an amazing video. It is so beautiful in the park! But um, I don't think that preview for next week looks so good for Daneger's back, although it looks great for entertainment and having fun!
Thank you! Errmm I think Daneger is gonna be told off quite a few times throughout this series 😂 he certainly didn't act like someone with a broken back 🙈
Off roading in buggies, like being back in Rarotonga!
True! These buggies didn't have to be hot wired like the ones in Raro - bit of an upgrade 😂
Very unique place...and similar to Yellowstone in the US, sulphur smells and all.
We'd love to visit Yellowstone!
Wauw 🤩 looks stunning. 😂😂apart from Rotten egg smell round you 🤢 .Lookforward to next video exciting adventures by the looks of your sneak peak 😜🤫. Take care .
You get used to the smell pretty quickly and then don't even notice it.
Haha it took us a while to adjust to the smell but it's so worth it to see all the geothermal activity!
You guys are a breath of fresh air, pun intended 🤣🤣❗️ Looking at the vids, we can still remember the smells. BTW the smells are much more pervasive than Yellowstone in the US. We remember walking out of a grocery and getting hit in the face with the smells.
Haha we see what you did there 😂 We'll never get used to the smell of sulphur, not pleasant at all!
What unique and beautiful place. Dane - Stacey had mentioned you were color blind. I have seen TH-cam videos of people trying on special sunglasses that enables them to see color. Fyi. Your country is so beautiful it can be a game changer.
He's not tried the glasses yet, maybe one day!
@@DanegerAndStacey I just want to say I love that you guys always take the time to respond back to your subscribers (actually even non-subscribers who comment). I follow other TH-cam travel vloggers as well but none of them respond to me like you do. Now I feel a more personal connection with you guys and you are becoming my favorite of the lot. ♥️
We appreciate that mate! It takes time (hence Stace sometimes, me right now) but we enjoy the chat. I’m still waiting to try those glasses at some stage!
Lesshhhhgo Aunty Aneta xxx
Yaaass! She had such a good singing voice ❤️
You are following a very similar path to what we did for our three week trip! Can’t wait to see where else you go!
I wanted to pass on my thanks for this series. New Zealand has been high on my bucket list for many years. I'm a teacher living in the UK and am restricted to a maximum of 2 weeks off during your spring's, summer's and autumn's. Its always felt too far away for 2 weeks - with precious 'vacation days' taken up by flying and then jet lag. We get 6 weeks off in our summer (your winter) but I've never been sure if I'd regret visiting when its 'cold'. I know we're only a few episodes into the series, but I'm already convinced that the North Island would be a good place to visit in July/August. Today's Vlog has brought back such fond memories of my visits to Yellowstone... which I LOVE. I think a trip to NZ will be on the cards some point soon after all this Covid-craziness allows the freedom of travel again. I'm looking forward to the vlogs that will follow ❤️
I live in Nz, there is still heaps to do during winter, depending on your interests! Plus things can be a bit cheaper too during the off-peak times. I live in Auckland and winter this year has been pretty mild.
@Jessica Bell Thanks Jessica. So much is telling me to just bite the bullet and book flights when I can. I also like the idea of cheaper prices! 🙌 I'm very intrigued to see what winter on the South Island is like.
Honestly, we weren't sure about doing this trip in the winter either. We were worried we'd miss out on a lot of things like hikes/outdoorsy stuff. To be fair it has been a very mild winter but we would definitely still recommend it. We hear what you're saying about the flights and jetlag though, its a loooong way from the UK but so worth it! We hope you manage to tick NZ off your bucketlist once things settle down in the world! Always here if you need any recommendations / advice 😁
@Daneger and Stacey Whoa, with the huge number of subscribers you guys have, I hadn't really expected my message to be read! 🤭 Thanks for taking the time to read it ❤️❤️ I'll share my love for your videos more often now 😉
We always try to reply! It literally takes hours, but it’s worth it 😊
Have you been to Iceland to see Strokkur yet? It erupts roughly every 7 minutes and starts with a gorgeous blue bubble. What a beautiful walk around the park you guys did! I really liked the walkway through the mud/steam area. Very neat
No we haven't but it sounds like somewhere we'd love to visit!
@@DanegerAndStacey it's amazing!! Everywhere is breathtakingly beautiful! I highly recommend going sometime between June to late August next year!!
Oh my gosh, don't know if we could handle the stinky rotten egg smell, but heck, it's something to put on our NZ bucket list:) Love how you create a soothing feel through the edit and music.
Yay, a fellow color blind😁
Think is fantastic how your revealing the true beauty's of NZ.
Lol, "look at all those details"
Thanks for another fun share, James and Kim
Haha you do get used to it eventually! Definitely something to put on the bucketlist, feels like you're on a completely different planet. Oh which one of you is colourblind? Thans for watching guys 😁
@@DanegerAndStacey Me James, and I'm the Disney artist in the family, Lol
Reminds me of Yellowstone in Wyoming
Second person to say this! Looks like we're gonna have to visit Yellowstone someday!
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if you look closely,the geyser is fed something by the guide,that makes it shoot up,at that exact time,i was shocked to say the least.
Thorfinn986_doesn't_do_average That’s what Dane and Stacey are talking about in the video. Feeding the geyser soap lowers the surface tension of the water, which makes it erupt.
@@snich63 😂 You get a gold star for paying attention! ⭐️
At the end of your 5 weeks, would you have a route and cost of each activities, so I can save up and duplicate next year.
We might do - we still have a lot of videos to get through before then :)
This made me laugh because of the smell of the sulphur but it was beautiful all the same! I think Lady Knox would be a favourite of mine if I ever got to see her
Oh lordy we will never get used to the smell of sulphur 😂 Lady Knox is super impressive!
Gosh, now Stacey is scarry me, with her look in her eyes when she shoot that thing!
Don't mess with me 😂
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KIAORA I live in rotorua out owhata 😂
Kia ora. I was born and bred in Rotorua, home stead is up western heights. In Opo now, love the sulphur smell.
Kia Ora! Oh you're lucky to live in such an epic place, so much cool stuff to do in the area!
hi, daneger and stacey, the place is really beautiful, can you pls let me know whether drones are allowed or not? will be visiting that place soon.
We highly recommend doing your own research on this - would hate to give you the wrong information!
Sulpheriffic
Ayyyyyy we see what you did there 😂
Daneger, have you tried color blind glasses? I'm sure you could find a sponsor brand 😎
He hasn't actually! I'm sure it would be interesting for him but then it might also make him sad to realise what he's missing out on!
Ah, flying toilets....the daily life of the advanced travellers ;)
Just another day on the road!
got a good laugh when she said science
😂 had to be said!
1886,Mt Tarawera erupted,and buried most of the surroundings,including the Pink and White terraces.
It did indeed! Sad times!
When are the young Danegers expected? Its time! :)
Our families are saying the same thing 😜
@@DanegerAndStacey
And they are right!😉🤣
That makes me think of Japan’s onsens except that you can’t bathe in these.
There are actually quite a few Japanese styled onsen hot pools in NZ - we love them!
guys could you do i live vlog
Maybe one day!
You look like cricket dale steyn 😂
Gonna have to google this one!