Top Attractions For Rotorua

• Geothermal parks - Rotorua is the home to numerous geothermal parks where you can experience unique features such as geysers, bubbling mud, steaming ground, hot springs and volcanic craters.
  
  
• Government Gardens - Contain many places of historical and legendary interest for the local Maori people. Today, the Gardens are home to petanque, lawn bowls, croquet, Te Runanga Tearooms, the Band Rotunda, Rotorua Museum of Art & History, the Blue Baths, Gardeners Cottage and Rotorua Arts Village Experience.
  
  
• Rotorua Museum - Discover the essence of Rotorua: its people, culture, and volcanic landscape. Explore the innovative exhibitions and learn about the dramatic events and legendary figures that have shaped this region.
  
  
• Rainbow Springs Nature Park - Offers a nature walk through native and introduced species of wildlife set amongst beautiful native trees, plants and ferns. Open late each evening visitors can view the park with an exciting array of coloured lighting and experience a night-time walk through the Kiwi enclosure.
  
  
• Agrodome - Provides visitors with an extraordinary, hands-on farming experience and total interaction with commercially farmed animals such as sheep, goats, cattle, deer, alpacas and ostriches, plus a world famous sheep show! Agrodome is also a haven for adventure seekers, hosting exciting and adrenalin pumping activities like AgroJet, Bungy, Swoop, Freefall Xtreme, Zorb, the Helipro and more.
  
  
• Skyline Skyrides Rotorua - Set high on the side of Mt Ngongotaha with extensive views of Rotorua city, lake, geothermal activity and surrounding hinterlands, Skyline Skyrides provides the ideal venue for a day of family fun or a romantic evening for two.
  
  
• Buried Village - Destroyed by the eruption of Mt Tarawera in 1886, the village of Te Wairoa is today a living museum where visitors can experience a unique piece of New Zealand history, including a museum and archaeological sites.
  
  
• Rotorua’s lakes - There are 16 lakes in the vicinity of Rotorua. Blue Lake (Tikitapu) is a popular for swimming and fishing, with a walking track offering views to the Green Lake (Rotokakahi), only accessible to members of the Tuhourangi Tribe. Major fishing lakes include Rotorua, Rotoiti, Tarawera, Okataina and Rotoma.
  
  

Top Activities For Rotorua

• Adventure Activities - Like the rest of New Zealand, Rotorua has its fair share of adventure and water based activities. The rivers coming into the lake provide great opportunities for white water rafting and river sledging over the Kaituna waterfall, the highest commercially rated waterfall in the world. Other activities include black water rafting (on subterranean rivers that flow through ancient cave systems), zorbing, rock climbing, abseiling, luge, bungy jumping and more.
  
  
• Experience Maori Culture - The heartland of New Zealand Maori culture, Rotorua invites tourists to experience the warm spirit of Te Maori. Visit a Maori village, watch a Maori cultural performance - where stories are relayed through beautiful song and dance, see cultural demonstrations, view tribal arts and crafts or indulge in a traditional hangi feast.
  
  
• Fishing - Rotorua offers anglers the very best of New Zealand trout fishing. With a variety of water to enjoy, from small clear mountain streams to lakes and relatively large rivers, this area is great for novices and can test the skills of even the best angler. Private and group charters are available.
  
  
• Relaxation - After a hard days sightseeing there really is no better way to relax than by soaking in the healing waters of Rotorua’s hot springs. Whether its adventure, rejuvenation, or a cultural experience you seek, Rotorua offers something special for everyone.