Rotorua isn’t a particularly exciting town but it does have a lot of mildly volcanic activity – clouds of smelly steam leaking into the streets everywhere, hot mud pools, that sort of thing. 'Holiday spa town' might sum it up, and it lives up to this with a beautiful public park and a fabulously Bavarian Public Baths. A while ago the Baths became a Museum; most recently, though, it’s all been closed down because of earthquake risk. So you can admire it from outside, but you can't go inside.
Around the Baths is a lovely set of formal gardens. Here are some of the regular favourites… and there’s a whole separate page devoted to Rotorua - Roses