A New Zealand family has been forced to abandon its home after a bubbling mud crater appeared in the garden. Susan Gedye, who lives in the North Island town of Rotorua, woke up in the early hours ...

Rotorua District Council (RDC) officials have expressed shock and sadness at news of a local 12 year old girl falling into a hot mud pool and suffering burns in Rotorua yesterday. RDC parks ...

Photo / Supplied ... claims its mud bath and sulphur spa will leave skin clean and soft to touch for up to six weeks. "We have bubbling mud and exploding hot water pools in excess of 100C, a ...

Sixty years ago the population was a staggering 4500, but as Rotorua township grew ... the moonscape of silica terraces, bubbling mud pools and boiling mineral springs. It's a dramatic scene ...

Formed approximately 160,000 years ago, it's covered with collapsed craters, cold and boiling pools of mud, water and steaming ... O-Tapu thermal wonderland in Rotorua, New Zealand.

Rotorua, a city nestled in the heart of New ... This activity results in massive geysers, bubbling hot mud pools, acidic lakes and landscapes that seem almost alien. The sulphur from these ...

The Rotorua region’s hot springs, bubbling mud pools and geysers play an integral role in the local Maori’s traditional healing practices and has so for generations. Traditional Maori figures ...

They were welcomed by the women of ... and naturally boiling water to cook. She tells guests about the healing waters, which are still attracting tourists to soak in natural hot pools in the ...

GNS Science volcanologist Brad Scott pictured at "Spring 653" in central Rotorua. Photo / Alan Gibson He said the primary hazard for residents was “hot mud that exploded out of the mud pools”.

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Bronnie Mackintosh grew up in Rotorua, New Zealand in the 1970s, a place of bubbling mud pools, a ...