article_snippet: On day one, we disembark andhead for Rotorua and Rotorua strange geothermal pools. '
article_snippet: we hire a car and drive to see bubbling mud, hot volcanic craters and hissing ochre and green waters.
article_snippet: Let's just say it was moving.)
article_snippet: Gale force winds mean the ship can make only slow progress as the ship tries to avoid pitching heavily into the waves.
article_snippet: The crossing takes three long days and nights,