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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5285, 23 December 1946, Page 8

Beautiful Rainbow Spring! Beautiful Rainbow Spring! Beautiful Rainbow Spring! SEE THE RENOWNED RAINBOW TROUT WHICH MADE THE DISTRICT ' FAMOXJS. COMFORTABLE FURNISHED CABINS AND CAMPING SITES. PHONE 657.

1 Have you seen the SCENIC GEM — i j^AKE QKATAINAT Short Launch Trips on Lake to' see the»Beautiful Bush Scenery. ACCOMMODATION FOR ANGLERS AND GUESTS AT OKATAINA FISHING LODGE. Home-eooked Teas Served. Boats and Motors, etc., for Hire. Trolling and Fly-Fishing. ' RING FOR BOOKINGS. ' Enquire N.Z. Road Services re Day or Half-day Trips. Lake Rotoiti-Okataina Round Trip (Motor and Launch} The main hlghways racUatlng-' frons Rotorua were bullt to provlde the shortest routes to and frorn the thermal dlstricts, j and they. therefore, of necessity by-pass i much of the most magniflcent scenery. j The water route of the Lake Rotoiti- I Okataina Round Trip remedies these de- j fects and bringa Into vlew new and dellghtful panoramas as the launch traverses the sinuous and ever-changing coastline of the longer of Rotorua's Justly renowned lakes. Eleven miles from Rotorua the tourlst 1s flrst shown the Okere Falls, formlng the head of a deep and dangerous ravlne twenty miles in extent. Arms of the lake, dotted wlth islands and separated' by slender penlnsulas, branch out ln all directions. «Trees overhang the water's edge, their roots securely held in the clefts of rock, while at the base of the mlghty rampant the water, 500 feet deep, hollows out deep flssures and fairy caverns. When the passengers disembark, the journey IS resumed by car to the gateway of Hongi's Track. Hongi's Track is enshrined for all time in the history of the Maorl race. The car next passes down the celebrated Okataina Track. An additional crulse by launch on Lake Okataina Is available and furnlshes a rare and singular experience. Leaving Okataina the next call is Tikitere, a curlous, weird conglomerate of mud Bprings, black and cavernous, throbbing, hissing and splutterlng. The spectacle is awesome and, known as Hell's Gate, provides the hlghest known surface temperatures in the world. Daily 9.15 a.m. FARE: 12/6. Launch on Lake Rotoiti, 7/6. Gulda Fees: Okere Falls, 6d; Tikitere, 2/-; Launch on Okataina Lake, 2/6. Wairakei-T aupo The Wairakel-Taupo trip takes ,tho traveller" to the geographical centre of the North Island, the great volcanio Taupo basln. The slghts, varied to a , degree, are unequalled in any other part | of the world. Rainbow Mountain, resplendent in colour, is still the scene of considerable thermal actlvity. The rugged Paeroa mountain range lying to the west of the Rotorua-Taupo road comes lnto view a few miles beyond Rainbow Mountain. No words can do justice to the remarkable enterprlse that Is converting 1,000,000 acres of tussock and scrub into one immense forest of vlgorous, healthy pine. Unrivalled vlews of the plantation are ohtained from the service car. In the Aratiatia Rapids, the Huka Falls, and the cqlebrated Geyser and Wai-Ora Valleys, we see the wizardry of Nature ln endless diversity of operation. The weird display of thermal activity in the Geyser Valley has won for it the tltle of the Eighth Wonder of the World. Seen beneath a cairn and cloudless sky, the blue of Lake Taupo is said to transcend the far-famed Vesuvian blue of the Bay of Naples. In the rarefled atmosphere it is deeper, ridher — a pure sapphire blue. The mountains of National Park are revealed in clearest outline on the far shore-line. Daily 9.00 a.m. FARE: 25/-. Wairakei Valley, 5/-; Waiotapu, 1/-.

TIKITERE - - - Hell's Gate I Buses leave 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. daily. H FARE: 5/- RETURN — Guido Fee 2/-. 1 SITUATED a few miles from Rotorua, on a perfect road, H is the awesome area of Tikitere, better known as Hell's 9 Gate, a name given to it by the famous world traveller H and author, George Augustus Sala. Here are sights, smella 9 and sounda that might well come from the bottomless H pit, and In places the earth can be felt trembling under- SH ,foot. Mr. Bernard Shaw was tremendously impress ed M with his visit to Tikitere and with Satanic aspect of the 9 place. The Maori guides safely conduct parties through 9 and interestlngly describe the phenomena as they go H along, pointing out the reasons for the peculiar names 9 bestowed on outstanding features such as "Sodom and 99 Gomorrah," "The Devil's Cauldron," "Adam and Eve," 9 etc. Wlth its unmistakable and impressive Indlcatlons 9 of pent-up force, Tikitere should not be mlssed by vlsitori h to the thermal reglons. H RAINBOW SPRINGS I Hourly service by Ngongotaha bus from Road B Services' Office. B . FARE: 1/6 — Guide Fee 1/-. B The Rainbow Springs rapidly achleved fame as ono of |9 Rotorua's most popular beauty spots. Thi;ee pools, set - in an environment of bush and fern, contain large num- ^9 bers of trout,. including many of considerable size. The graceful movements of the flsh, the fins serving variously as oars and balancers, can be viewed to advantage. When shafts of sunlight play on the water the effect is beautiful. 9ft The rainbow trout Js then reveiled as one of Nature's Jn, flnished works of art. It has an incomparable dellcacy of form with markinge that show an ©xtraordinary range of tints and pencillings. The Rainbow Sprlnga reglon con- fls tains a large variety of shrubs and ferns. It is in fact 9ft a magniflcent and extensive shrubbery through which shady'paths are lald. ftff H-