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Franz Josef Glacier, New Zealand
The glacier is constantly moving, so each day, the Glacier Guides have to carve, pick, and navigate new paths through the terrain.
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Rotorua, New Zealand
In the morning, we woke up early and drove straight to Rotorua—a lakeside town about an hour inland from the coast. Rotorua is known for its geothermal activity, as the town sits on the caldera of a massive volcano that last erupted several thousand years ago. This volcanic activity makes the region home to several geysers, geothermal hot springs, bubbling mud pools, and sulphuric gas. And let me tell you—that sulphur smell is extremely strong. Our clothes likely still smell like rotten eggs, and it’s impossible to get used to that stench. Rotorua is also famous for its Maori culture, as the city is one of the first places the…
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Cathedral Cove, New Zealand
Cathedral Cove is a naturally formed archway in the middle of a beautiful stretch of the Pacific coast. In Maori (the language of the indigenous Maori people of New Zealand,) Cathedral Cove is known as Te Whanganui-A-Hei.
