people at the champagne pool
a lake full of highlighter ink and the sickest neon pastell colors...
i’ve seen my fair share of geothermal wonderlands but this really swept me off my feet. nature never ceases to amaze!
w-o-w wai-o-tapu!
steaming champagne pool. wai-o-tapu, new zealand.
psychedelic! the geothermal wonderland from above. these colors are so crazy cool.
sulphuric candy colors. wai-o-tapu, new zealand
okay, okay, i think i might have a little addiction problem. maybe it’s the psychedelic colors, the sulphuric steam or god knows what, one thing is sure: i’m hooked on geothermal wonderlands! after america’s lassen volcanic and yellowstone national park and new zealand’s rotorua, waimangu volcanic valley and waikite valley i still wanted more and just HAD TO go to WAI-O-TAPU, too.
the boy really was fed up with all that steam and smell already, so he decided to take a nap with mieke in the campervan - while i ran through the park like a smurf on speed, on my personal picture shooting spree. believe me, i’m not overexaggerating. the people must’ve thought i’m batshit insane =D : i wore layers of rainclothing and plastic bags to save the camera when i started the walk in the pouring rain, but then the sun came out and it got really hoooot. i underestimated the distances you have to walk in this park by a lot, and of course i wanted to see EEEEEVERYTHING and still be back in time, so i raced over hill and dale like a demented speedy gonzales, plastic fluttering all around me, sweating like crazy, aprubtly stopping to take quick pics here and there (which of course didn’t even turn out that well. doh!) when i came back to the campervan like 10 minutes late, gasping and thirsty like a camel, lars and mieke of course (!) still were sound asleep. story of my life =D.