THE BEST Sights and Attractions in Rotorua

🏛️ Sights and Attractions in Rotorua

• Te Puia (Pohutu Geyser and Maori cultural centre) — Geothermal valley home to the Pohutu Geyser, which erupts up to 30m up to 20 times daily, plus the New Zealand Maori Arts and Crafts Institute and carved wharenui.
• Wai-O-Tapu Thermal Wonderland — Waiotapu is an active geothermal area at the southern end of the Okataina Volcanic Centre, just north of the Reporoa caldera, in New Zealand's Taupō Volcanic Zone. It is 27 kilometres south of Rotorua. Due to dramatic geothermal conditions beneath the earth, the area has many hot
• Waimangu Volcanic Valley — The Waimangu Volcanic Rift Valley is the hydrothermal system created on 10 June 1886 by the volcanic eruption of Mount Tarawera, on the North Island of New Zealand. It encompasses Lake Rotomahana, the site of the Pink and White Terraces, as well as the location of the Waimangu Ge
• Whakarewarewa The Living Maori Village — Working Maori village within a geothermal valley where residents cook in natural steam vents and bathe in hot pools, with guided cultural tours and the Pohutu geyser.
• Hell's Gate Geothermal Reserve and Mud Spa — Geothermal reserve with New Zealand's largest hot mud volcano, steaming cliffs, and sulphur spa pools historically used by Maori for healing.
• Government Gardens — Formal English-style gardens on the lakefront surrounding the Tudor-style Rotorua Museum (former bath house), with bowling greens, band rotunda, and geothermal vents.
• Polynesian Spa — is a developed geothermal spa facility in Rotorua, North Island, New Zealand.
• Redwoods Whakarewarewa Forest (The Redwoods) — Forest of towering 1901-planted California coast redwoods with walking tracks and a nighttime Redwoods Treewalk of suspended lantern-lit bridges 12m up.
• Skyline Rotorua (gondola and luge) — Gondola up Mt Ngongotaha to a viewpoint, cafe, and a gravity-fueled luge track system with three courses winding down the mountain.
• Kuirau Park — Free public geothermal park in central Rotorua with steaming crater lakes, bubbling mud pools, and a footbath where visitors soak in heated mineral water.
• Lake Rotorua — is the second largest lake in the North Island of New Zealand by surface area, covering 79.8 km2. It has a mean depth of just 10 metres and a considerably smaller volume of water than nearby Lake Tarawera. It sits within the Rotorua Caldera in the Bay of Plenty Regio