Nature / Sustainable Tourism

Hell's Gate and Wai Ora Spa

Hell's Gate and Wai Ora Spa, Tikitere is a unique place of extreme contrasts. Visitors walk past steaming fumeroles and pools of boiling mud so violent they are unnerving. Yet it is a place of wonderful beauty featuring native fauna and birds, remarkable formations and colours, cascading hot water and unearthly vistas.

Long before the 1840s when Europeans found and described the medicinal properties of Tikitere as having 'quite remarkable curative properties', Maori warriors returning from battle bathed to salve their wounds. Now visitors take the waters and experience the unique muds.

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