Smoking Hot Tourism

“Geo-thermal activity is everywhere [in the Taupo Volcanic Zone],” Ritu Singh writes for The Times of India. “Pits steam, holes smoke and water boils wherever you look – inside hotels, behind bushes even in people’s backyards. The aptly named Devil’s Ink Pots is a spectacular sea of mud – where steaming whirls and whorls plop, hiss and spit eternally.” Singh also visits Lady Knox Geyser “pronounced guy-zer never gee-zer in New Zealand”, which erupts every day at precisely 10.15 a.m. “to ooohhs, aaaahs and the flash of cameras.” “I look at Mount Tarawera, now a lush green, peaceful looking fixture on the landscape with new respect. And suddenly fun thermal activity acquires a mean edge.”