Wai-o-Tapu, New Zealand

today, like yesterday, like the day before yesterday ... according to good tradition, a large portion of photos from New Zealand. Geysers, mountains, beautiful roads and stability. True stability, not what you see on TV. In New Zealand, everything is consistently good and warm. What is missing now for all of us.

In the morning I take off again over Rotorua

A boring tourist town, like most in New Zealand. There is nothing to watch besides the museum building.

One more time geysers

Time to go south

I'm traveling with comfort ... A bottle of white and any road to joy. Especially when beauty is around

Sheep outside the window

nicely

the sheep found the shadow

around the mud

It's funny: when a mud geyser starts an eruption, the dirt scatters not with drops, but with sharp-edged plates, like an animation made in 3D

The second main attraction in the thermal valley is Wai-o-Tapu Park. He is famous for his "champagne pond"

The park is also private, entrance is paid and costs $ 33.

Mud puddles, color is formed due to the small amount of graphite and crude oil

Do not go

The intruder

The heart of the park - the so-called "artist's palette" and champagne pond

Water poured over the edge of the champagne pond "draws" minerals. Coloring depends on water level and wind direction.

The colors are unusually bright. This is not a photoshop, everything is in reality. Yellow is sulfur

Orange - antimony. Green - colloidal sulfur

Red-brown - iron oxide. Actually here it is, champagne pond, the largest source. Swim in it will not work, the temperature is 73 degrees.

The pond got its name because of small bubbles rising to the surface. These are bubbles of carbon dioxide.

The pond is surrounded by a small fence.

Another interesting pond is the Devil's Pool.

He has a bright lime color. The color is the result of mixing champagne water with sulfur and black salts.

We go further. I first saw a geyser powered power station in New Zealand.

Along the road - neatly trimmed lawn

Drove to Mordor. My hotel.

The mountains

why morder?

The prototype of Mordor - the "black country" of Tolkien and Mount Doom - the main goal of the journey of the heroes of the "Lord of the Rings", served as Tongariro National Park in New Zealand.

Tomorrow I'll go to the track for the whole day in search of familiar landscapes