Lake Tarawera (meaning ‘burnt spear’)- is one of many in the area of craters of extinct volcanoes filled with water and surrounded by subtropical forest. The lake is located in the middle of the North Island of New Zealand, near Rotorua. The 1886 eruption of Mount Tarawera drastically changed the area around the Lake Tarawera Scenic Reserve. Steam and hot water, periodically poured into the lake, forming a kind of natural hot pool, creating a landscape typical of the period of the dinosaurs.
Here you can ride a foggy night on a small boat or boat for two, take a hot bath or stay active and go swimming on kayaks, and after an overnight stay on the shore of "hot sand."