There’s a vast cauldron where mud as caustic as sulphuric acid boils continuously. A superhot waterfall bubbles with steam and you can instantly cook food by dangling it into a stream. And we’re here to deliberately cake ourselves in thick grey mud with the aroma of rotten eggs.

A journey to Hell’s Gate may not sound like a quintessential mind and body soothing experience. But we’re in New Zealand where a lot of assumptions get turned on their head. And this shore excursion experience at Hell’s Gate turns out to be so heavenly, it leaves us tingling for days.

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