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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5329, 15 February 1947, Page 8

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Have you seen the SCENIC GEM-— » ^AKE QKATAINAt. j Short Launch Trips on Lake -Ao see j the BeautifulBush Scenery. ACCOMMODATION FOR ANGLERS ! AND GUESTS /AT OKATAINA i 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.

Lake Rotoiti-Okatama Round Trip (Motor and Launeh) The maln highways radlating from Rotorua were bullt to provide the shortest routes to and frora the thermal distrlcta, '! and they, ther'efore, of necessity hy-pasa much of the most magnlflcent scenery. ; The water route of the Lake RotoitlOkataina Round Trip remedlea these defects and brings into vlew new and dellghtful pauoramas as the launch traverses the sinuoua and ever-changlng coastline of the longer of Rotorua's justly renowned lakes. Eleven miles from ] Rotorua the tourist is flrst shown (he | Okere Falls, forming the head of a deep : and dangerous ravlne twenty miles in extent. Arms of the lake, dotted wlth islands and separated by slender penln- j sulas, branch out ln alj directions. Treea I overhang, the water's edge, thelr roots J securely held In the clefts of rock, while at the base of the mighty rampant the , water, 500 feet deep, hollows out deep , flsgures and fairy caverns. When the ; passengers disembark, the journey Is re- i sumed by car to the gateway of Hongi's I Track. Hongi's Track ^s enshrlned for ! all time in the history of - the Maorl race. [ The car next passes down the celehrated Okataina Track. An additional cruise • by launch on Lake Okataina is avallable I and furnishes a rare and slngular experi- 1 ence. Leavlng Okataina the next call is Tikitere, a curious, weird conglomerate j of mud springs, black and cavernous, ; throbbing, hissing and spluttering. The j spectacle is awesome and, known as Hell's Gate, provides the highest known surface temperatures in the world. Daily 9.15 a.m. FARE: 12/6. Launch on ( Lake Rotoiti, 7/8. Gulde Fees: Okere j Falls, 6d; Tikitere, 2/-; Launch on Okataina Lake, 2/6. Wairakei-T aupo The Wairakei- Taupo trip takes the traveller to the geographical Centre of ;"fhe North Island, the great volcanlo ; Taupo basln. The sights, varled to a degree, are unequalled ln any other parfc i of the world. Rainbow Mountaln, re- ( splendent ln colour, ls stlll the scene of i conslderable thermal activlty. The rugged ■ Paeroa mountaln range lying to the west ■- of the Rotorua-Taupo road comes lnto I view a few miles beyond Rainbow Moun- ! taln. No words can do justlce to the j remarkable enterprise that is convertlng | 1,000,000 acres of tussock and scrub lnto j o'ne Immense forest of vigorous, healthy | pine. Unrivalled views of the plantation ; are obtalned frcm the service car. In the i 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 i thermal activlty in the Geyser Valley has won for it the title of the Eighth I Wonder of the World. Seen beneath a cairn and cloudles3 sky, the blue of Lake Taupo is sald to transcend the far-famed Vesuvlan blue of the Bay of Naples. In the rarefled atmosphere lt ls deeper, richer— a pure sapphlre blue. The mountalns of Natlonal Park are revealed ln clearest outllne on the far shore-llne. Daily 9.00 a.m. FARE: 25/-. Wairakei Valley, 5/-; Waiotapu, 1/-.