travel all around the globe: My taupo and Rotorua trip! :)

Wake up at 6 am, which is quite early for me because I'm used to wake up at 7 to 7:30.. But it was okay, and then I had to go to the school where we all met. Then we went into the bus and drove to Taupo.

1st Stop was the SKydive station, but unfortunately, no Skydive could take place, because it was too cloudy. But there will be a second chance to do that when we are going to the Skitrip.

Our second Stop was the Bungy jumping stop. It was really impressive to see the people jump down and then you hear them shouting and everything and rebouncing in the high again. I have a lot of respect of the guys who did that! But I didn't do that right now, because I think when I would do it the weather should be nicer, and I want my parents to be with me! But we will see if I really dare to do it. Otherwise there is another thing called tandem I think, which is just like a giant swing in the middle of nothing, which you can do in pairs and looked like a lot of fun!

That's the platform from where you jump into nowhere..

These are the Huka Falls which are quite impressive and the water looked really nice and had a very fair blue amazing color! And it was just full of movement! Really impressive!

Then we went to Rotorua and there is a photo of the town. I took the photo from the top of the mountain from where we did the luge. We went up the mountain with the gondola and on top we got some tickets for 3 luge rides! That was a whole lot of fun! There were 3 different difficulty degrees and I did them all, first the easy then the difficult and finally the middle one. In fact it started raining for my last ride, so when I arrived at the top again I was all wet.. So in the restaurant I ate my lunch with the others. After that, we went back to the base of the mountain.

Then we made another stop at the ogo ball thing. So that's where you go into that plastic ball and they trow some water with you inside and the ball rolls down the mountain. It looked like a whole lot of fun, but it was really cold (10C) and you had to be in your swim suit, so that was defenetly not for me! I might do it in summer if the occasion comes again.

That's the historical area of the hot and mud pools. It lookes really nice but was not really too interesting, because there was not too much to see so we only stayed there for 20 minutes.

But it was really smelly because of the brimstone coming out of the pool..

That's a mud pool, which was really stinky.. But appearently the mud is very good for your skin, but I rather didn't try that;)

These are the hot pools where you can swim in. And the water was sooo hot- 40 degrees and my feeds were really hurting alot when I dipped them in it, because they were so cold.. But it was really refreshing and enjoyable! I loved it and after that, fish and chips just next to the pools;) Finally we had 10 minutes to get dressed again.. that was a real challange and there was only one old hairdryer for all the girls, so I and some others had to go into the bus with wet hair.. And then the 2 hours drive and back at the house at 9:20, and at leased they dropped me right here, which was really nice!