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Rotorua (Māori: Te Rotorua-nui-a-Kahumatamomoe "The second great lake of Kahumatamomoe") is a city on the southern shores of Lake Rotorua from which the city takes its name, located in the Bay of Plenty Region of New Zealand's North Island

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Rotorua is a major destination for the tourism industry is by far the largest industry in the district. It is known for its geothermal activity, and features geysers...

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... notably the Pohutu Geyser at Whakarewarewa – and hot mud pools.

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Rotorua has the nickname Sulphur City, because of the hydrogen sulphide emissions, which gives Rotorua a "rotten eggs" smell, as well as rotten-rua combining its legitimate name and the rotten smell prevalent.

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The Rotorua region has 17 lakes, known collectively as the Lakes of Rotorua. Fishing, waterskiing, swimming and other water activities are popular in summer. The lakes are also used for event venues; Rotorua hosted the 2007 World Waterski Championships and Lake Rotorua was the venue for the World Blind Sailing Championships in March 2009. Lake Rotorua is also used as a departure and landing point for float planes.

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Another of Rotorua's attractions is mountain biking. Whakarewarewa Forest was listed as one of the Top 8 locations globally by Red Bull Magazine in 2012. The forest includes over 100 km of mountain bike trails and in August 2006 was a host of the UCI Mountain Bike and Trials World Championships. In 2015 Rotorua hosted the Southern Hemisphere leg of the Crankworx mountain bike even

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Obviously, I had to spend the night here and so I had the right to wake up with a beautiful sunrise over the lake
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I visited Rotorua over 30 years ago. I'll never forget the Suphur smell. The boiling mud and steam at the geothermal pools was amazing.

Arf ! This smell ma men!! ^^ And what is funny, you can see smoking all over the city, from private gardens, from sewer outlet, from lakes or mud pools...

Hi! Very nice shots, the trees are amazing and i really love the landscape with the sunset ;)

Hi @stabe thanks bro! Redwood Forest is a magic place. And this is a sunrise, not a sunset ;). (tomorrow we're going to another unique place, so stay tuned ma men :)

It was written about the sunrise sorry mate but the first pic looks so much like a sunset ! I will keep an eye tomorrow, i don't want miss the next episode !

Hi good morning it is a wonderful pictures thank for you to post their pictures

You're welcome @hazem123 . Glad that you appreciate. Stay tuned, dude ;)

Congratulations ! Your post has been highlighted in the Daily Travel Reports

Thanks so much @traveltrail . Proud to appear in the Daily Travel Reports ;)

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