This takes us past a wide range of different volcanoes, steaming pits, calderas, geothermal & hydro power stations and vast barren desert plains laid down by ejected material over scores of millennia.

Much of the area has been planted with timber producing pine trees and there are areas of native forests available to explore.

Settlements
Rotorua, Taupo, Turangi,  National Park Ohakuni and Waiuru are all thriving settlements with their own attractions and distinctive features involving active volcanoes and visitor facilities.

Rivers:
We can explore interesting erosion features, bed-load movements, flood controls, recreational uses, hydro electric power, industrial uses,
spectacular rapids and water falls.

Forests:
We see the stages of exotic tree farming from planting through to harvest.

Volcanoes:
We see the different shapes made by the various types. We learn to read the story through layered deposits of the many eruptions that happened here over the last 30,000 years. Along the shores of the a caldera we look for pumice a primary product of ryolite eruptions.