We feel like champs after climbing that volcano, no hike can scare us now! But we are sore, so the best thing to do after a hike like that, is to grab a case of cheap kiwi lager, and head to Mangatutu hot springs.
It was a long, slow drive through the winding roads with an hour of gravel at the end, including driving through a river, but Mangatutu is worth it- its a small, free campsite in the middle of rolling hills and forest, with a nice trout river in the valley below, and 2 hot tubs in the middle of nowhere on the side of a hill near the campsite. There is a natural hot water spring that flows down the hill, and someone put the two tubs there and directed some the hot water into a pipe that flows into the tubs, and the excess goes out the overflows. The temperature is even adjustable, there is a valve on the pipe so you can reduce the flow and let the water air-cool in the tubs, because they are VERY hot! No lack of heat here, they are near boiling most of the time when we showed up. A couple nice evening soaks under moonlight is just what we needed.
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