NZ +19: What Goes Up...

Started today at Skyline, which is not very extensive in its range of attractions, but it serves the basic purpose of taking you up the mountain...



(They do shut the doors...)



It's deceptively high and gives you a good view of the city of Rotorua, or Stinkville, on the way up...



Anyway, you get to the top, where there are more good views. This is the Lake and the (no doubt volcanic, they all are) island in the middle...



Once you are at the top, you strap on a helmet and sit in a very small go-kart effort and go hell-for-leather down the mountainside. It can't be that scary we thought, little kids are doing it...



...and there was a choice of scenic, intermediate and advanced tracks snaking their way down...



...and everyone had to do the scenic one first.

I think that's so when you arrive at the bottom with your eyes watering and your limbs shaking, you know exactly what the intermediate and advanced will do to you. But we still went on them anyway!



This is from the very bottom, when you have to slow down anyway, so I wasn't going very fast here. Not that you can tell from the photo.

At any rate, I wasn't the one who came off and ended up in First Aid!



When you got to the bottom, all you wanted to do was race to the top and have another go. But you had to take the slow and leisurely ski-lift back up...



Which at least gave you chance to get your breath back...

Thrill-seeking over for the day, we went in search of culture at the Bureied Village.