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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5319, 4 February 1947, Page 8

Beautiful Rainbow Springg ! Beautif ul Rainbow Springg 1 Beautiful Rainbow Springi \ SEE THE RENOWNED RAINBOW I TROUT WHICH MABE THE DlSTRlX I FAMOUS. 4 1 COMFORTABLE FURNISHED CABllVi ti AND CAMFING SITES. | PHONE 657. f

Kave you seen the SCENIC GEM — ' LAKE QKATAINAT. Short Launch Trips on Lake to Bee the Beautiful Bush Scenery. ACCOMMODATION FOR ANGLERS AND GUESTS AT OKATAINA FISHING LODGE. Home-cooked 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. Cake Rotoiti-Oka£ama Round Trip (Motor and Launoh) The main hlghways radlating from Rotorua were bullt to prov^e the shortest routes to and from the thermal distrlcts, and they, therefore, of necesslty hy-pass much of the most magniflcent scenery. The water route of the Lake RotoltlOlcataina Round Trip remadles these defects and brlngs Into vlew new and delightful panoramas as the launch traverse9 the einuous and ever-changing coastllne of the longer of Rotorua's justly renowned lakes. Eleven - miles from Rotorua the tourist is flrst shown the Okere Falls, forming the head of a deep and dangerous ravlne twenty mlles in extent. Arms of the lake, dotted with islands and separated by slender peninsulag, hranch out in all directions. Trees overhang the water's edge, their roots securely held in the clefts of rock, while at the base of the mighty 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 timo In- the history of the Maorl race. The^car next' passes down the celehrated Okataina Track. An additlonal cruise by launch on Lake Okataina is available and furnlshes a rare and singular experlence. Leaving Okataina the next caU is Tikitere, a curious, weird conglomerate of mud springs, ' black and cavernous, throbbing, hissing and Bplutterlng. The spectacle ls 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. Guldo Fees: Okere Falls, 6d. Tikitere, 2/-J Launch on Okataina Lake, 2/6. l> Wairakei-T aupo The Wairakei-Tanpo trip takes the traygjler to the geographical centre of the North Island, the great volcanio l Taupo basln. The slghts, varled to a ■ degree, are unequalled in any other part | of the world. Rainbow Mountaln, re- , splendent in colour, is still the scene of conslderable thermal actlvity. The rugged Paeroa mountaln range lying to the west of the Rotorua-Taupo road comes into view a few mlles beyond Rainbow Mountaln. No words can do justlce to the remarkable enterprlse that is convertlng 1,000,000 acres of tussock and scrub into one lmmense forest of vigorous, healthy plne. Unrivalled views of the plantatlon are obtained frcm the servlce car. In the Aratiatia Rapids, the Huka Falls, and the celehrated Geyser and Wai-Ora Valleys, we see the wizardry of Nature in endless diversity of operation. The welrd., display of thermal activity in the Geyser Valley has won for it the title of the Elghth Wonder of the World. Seen beneath a cairn and cloudless sky, the blue of Lake Taupo ls sald to transcend the far-famed Vesuvlan blue of the Bay of Naples. In the rarefled atmosphere It is deeper, richer — a pure sapphire blue. The mountains of Natlonal Park are revealed in clearest outllne on the far shore-line. Daily 9.00 a.m. FARE: 25/-. Wairakei Valley, 5/-; Waiotapu, 1/-.