Day 2

Day 2
We went for walk this morning and the experience was surreal. We walked up the main street past the 'Geothermal Park' and up the hill towards all the steam which was coming out of the ground like something you see in a film about New York. As we walked up the slope we could see the steam but were amazed by the noise. It sounded like a boiling kettle and was really odd. The signs said don't go too close to the edge as the crust is thin and you could fall in!!!! The temperature of some of these pools has been measured at 300+ degrees, pressure I presume.

We saw this amazing site, a boiling mud pool making a lovely slurping noise. We didn't know how easy it was to find these amazing sites and only a walk away. The town is full of greenhouses growing bananas! All this heat is managed and used to make plant growing a key industry. The weather is good and we have both got slightly sunburned.






The area is covered with tiny plants that cling to these slopes and flourish as tiny spots of colour. We pay a fortune for these from garden centres and to see them in their natural habitat is amazing.
The view back to where we were staying was also pretty good.














This was the landscape we were in the middle of. It was very strange. The sound is the wierdest bit. You don't expect the sound of boiling, it is so close to the surface.















Then we found the church. Why can't we design and build things like this? It was awe inspiring. The whole place was so peaceful and beautiful.


















We went back to the geothermal park where there was a pipe that sounded like a foundry and frightened Jean so much that she ran past it!!!