Daily Archives: 2014-11-20

Rotorua (Day 71 | 2014-11-06)

Today, the ship docked in Tauranga on the north island. We got off the ship around 10am to board the bus tour to Rotorua that we booked yesterday. Our first touristic stop was Kiwi 360, a complex celebrating the kiwifruit and its relation to New Zealand. Kiwi 360 is easily identifiable by a giant elevated wooden kiwifruit along the side of the highway. Our next touristic stop was Te Puia, a Maori cultural heritage site with geysers, mud pools, steam vents, and a 30-minute cultural show. By the time we got back to the ship it was raining, so we decided to head back aboard rather than walk around town.