This morning we visited Te Puia, a Maori Arts and Crafts Institute and natural thermal valley (complete with mud pools and a geyser field); we joined a guided tour and had a walk around.

Compared to what we had seen on White Island yesterday … the attractions of the natural thermal valley felt a bit like a joke. On White Island it all been a bit more intense and – of course – without those Chinese tour groups, we constantly had to walk around …