Timmy Travels

This morning we left for Waitomo first stopping at the Geysers hot springs which is on Maori land and was originally used by the people for washing, cooking and heating their homes. This is an impressive sight as you see the water spurting from the ground as it is heated to boiling point by the magma underground. Here there are also hot mud pools and the smell is pretty rank due to all the sulpher being produced you get an eggy smell.

After spending some time watching the eruptions of the geysers we all headed to the exhibition center and met up with the Maori guides where the boys from the group would learn to do the Haka, as it is against tradition for the girls to perform the Haka they had to settle with some sort of ball juggling on a rope, not very interesting. So all the lads headed off to the other side of the park area to make some noise and generally look like idiots. It was a good laugh learning it and making all the stupid faces until all the girls turned up to watch and we had to perform the Haka to them!

Later that day we arrived at the Hostel in Waitomo and spent the afternoon chilling out, we were in the middle of nowhere and there wasn’t much to do so after dinner we all watched a movie. Myself and a few others had booked onto the caving trip the following day which I was really looking forward to.