The smell can cause worry, anxiety and resentment. Repeated odour events may culminate in real symptoms such as headache, fatigue and nausea. Although these are not direct health effects they are undesirable. So much of what makes Rotorua a great place to visit, also makes it a great place to live.
We measure success here by the quality of our lifestyle, the diverse opportunities available to us, and the value of our connections — to nature, to each other and to the rest of New Zealand. Hydrogen sulfide H2S is a colourless gas with a characteristic odour of rotten eggs which being denser than air may pool in low areas in still conditions. This island nation located in between the South China Sea and the Philippine Sea takes the cake literally and figuratively of the worst oral health in the world.
The Philippines College of Dentistry found that nearly 90 percent of Filipinos suffer from tooth decay. The best smelling, that is. I pulled into the parking lot and walked around the corner of the building to look out over Lake Rotorua. The sun reflected off the yellowish-green hue of the water, rocks closest to shore were covered with a white residue but, more importantly, it was smelly.
The Rotorua region is rich with geothermal activity, geysers and bubbling mud pools dot the landscape. While the lake has more sulphur than normal due to this natural phenomenon, the smell really comes from the various geysers and thermal pools found close to the lake. The Polynesian Spa was built over these acidic pools and has been soothing aching muscles with the waters for more than a century. After enjoying The Cure at the spa, I walked around town and ended up lakeside once again, watching the black swans float along like majestic funeral barges.
The smell had vanished, well to me at least. Instead I looked out across the lake and fell in love with this quirky and slightly smelly town.
Matt has a true passion for travel. As someone who has a bad case of the travel bug, Matt travels the world in order to share tips on where to go, what to see and how to experience the best the world has to offer. Omg I laughed so much reading this! You step onto the road, and, if you don't keep your feet, there's no telling where you might get swept off to. Join the ADB Community!
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The fact that the stunning and unique scenery can help to forget this smell says a lot about the landscape! Doing all those adventurous activities looks like such fun!
My visit to New Zealand was filled with exciting adventures and adrenaline-pumping activities, with Rotorua being just one of the many incredible stops throughout the spectacular North Island. Rotorua is a hotspot of geothermal activity, which produces amazing geysers and pools but at the […]. Once you get past the smell of sulphur that permeates the town, you can enjoy geothermal parks, […].
Most towns have a river or creek flowing downtown, Rotorua has boiling mud! Definitely it is impressive. One of the characters was from Rotorua, NZ. Quite childish that you want to visit a place only for having heard of it in a tv series located somewhere else, but that was enough to start my curiosity. What beautiful photos. The same blue sky I remember from Lake Pukaki. Skip to content. Travel looks very different right now depending on where you're from and where you're going.
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