tudor towers in rotorua

Click Here to Order a Ready to Frame Luster PrintThis image was captured on my 2007 South Pacific trip.  Again I was on a journey to see things I have never seen and do things I never have done. I started with a trip around both islands in New Zealand I then flew to Thailand drove on through Malaysia and found my way down to visit an ex-pat friend in the heart of Singapore. There were so many places I went to that without pictures I probably would have forgotten half my trip. This is in the hot (literally) little town of Rotorua.  There is thermal activity under the ground everywhere.  The smell of rotten eggs is pervasive.  Tudor Towers was erected in an area now known as the Government Gardens, and was built as a bathhouse in 1906-1908 by the newly-created Department of Tourist and Health Resorts. The bathhouse was designed to attract wealthy visitors from the Northern hemisphere for medical treatment and genteel relaxation.  The baths combined medical treatment for c