Champagne Pool
Bubbles and an orange rim.
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An active geothermal area south of Rotorua whose Māori name means sacred waters, famous for astonishing colours created by dissolved minerals: vivid green pools, others yellow, orange and purple, and steam rising between craters and vents. Its best-known sight is the Champagne Pool, a wide hot spring fizzing with carbon dioxide bubbles, ringed by a bright orange rim of mineral deposits, beside the Artist's Palette, a surface of many shades, and the Devil's Bath with its strange green colour. At 10.15 every morning the Lady Knox Geyser is set off a short drive from the entrance, shooting water high in front of visitors, so arrive half an hour before. Free boiling mud pools lie along the access road. Tickets are about NZ$47 per adult, per visitor guides, and the full trail takes around an hour and a half. Stay on the marked paths, as the ground and water are extremely hot.
Bubbles and an orange rim.
Mineral colours.
Every morning.
About 27 km south of Rotorua, on the road to Taupō
At 10.15 every morning; arrive half an hour before, per visitor guides.