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A private day trip to Wai-O-Tapu's real geothermal wonderland and a genuine Hell's Gate mud spa.
A private tour for your group only, to the real Wai-O-Tapu geothermal wonderland and Hell's Gate's genuine mud spa.
This is a private tour for your group only. Real stops include the Wai-O-Tapu geothermal wonderland and Hell's Gate's genuine mud spa experience.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Hotel pickup in central Auckland.
Genuine Wai-O-Tapu features.
Hell's Gate's genuine treatment.
13 hours, just your group.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A private tour for your group only, to the real Wai-O-Tapu geothermal wonderland and Hell's Gate's genuine mud spa. This is a private tour for your group only. Real stops include the Wai-O-Tapu geothermal wonderland and Hell's Gate's genuine mud spa experience.
Hell's Gate sits at Tikitere, Rotorua's most geothermally active area, between Lake Rotorua and Lake Rotoiti. Its Māori name comes from a tragic legend — a young wife named Hurutini is said to have thrown herself into the boiling pool that now bears her name, after which her grieving mother's lament gave the area its title (a traditional story, not a documented historical event). The reserve's geothermal features, including Kakahi Falls, often described as the largest hot waterfall in the Southern Hemisphere, were formed by a series of eruptions roughly 10,000 years ago that are believed to have helped drain an ancient lake and shape today's Lake Rotorua and Lake Rotoiti.
The English name "Hell's Gate" is newer, dating to a 1934 visit by Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw, who reportedly likened the reserve's steaming, sulphurous landscape to the hell his theologian friends back home had warned him awaited an atheist. The mud spa draws on the reserve's own natural sulphur mud pools, offered today as warm therapeutic mud treatments alongside guided walks through the park's steaming lakes, fumaroles, and mud volcano.
Rotorua's wider geothermal wonderland includes Wai-O-Tapu — Māori for "sacred waters" — a separate 18-square-kilometre reserve about 27 kilometres south of the city, protected as a scenic reserve since 1931. Its best-known feature, the Champagne Pool, is the district's largest spring: around 65 metres across and up to 62 metres deep, holding water at roughly 74°C. It formed about 750 years ago in a large hydrothermal eruption, and its name comes from the steady fizz of carbon dioxide rising to the surface, much like a glass of champagne.
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