About 40 minutes south of the campground in Thames we stopped at the Karangahake Gorge, an area where from the late 1890s until 1920 two large gold ore processing plants were located processing gold and silver ore from New Zealand's third most productive goldmine. The old railway that went through the area has mostly been removed and the railway bed is now a walking and biking path. We explored the area including remains of the gold processing plants by taking some of the trails in the area including walking through the old railway tunnel, built between 1900 and 1905 and 1,070 meters long. Nice and interesting stop on the way!
We decided to make Rotorua our destination for today, and pitch our tent at the same thermal campground we stayed at in 2018. Although it was fairly busy, we were able to get a powered spot on grass - without thermal activity unlike last time - without a problem. Of course the way to cook at this campground was to steam our meat, sweet potato and veggies in the steam oven which uses the steam from an active thermal area at the campground. It was very tasty!
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