Emerald Lakes, Tongariro Crossing

Shuva from Hyderabad, India

This one looks so strange! A lake in the middle of nothing....great constrast.

24 Jan 2006 5:54am

Jason Kravitz from Atlanta, United States

looks alien (and quite inviting) - amazing!

24 Jan 2006 12:59pm

Hervé from Paris, France

Beautiful, but the water must be cold. Or acid. Because nobody is swimming in !

24 Jan 2006 2:14pm

scott from Savannah, United States

great colors!

24 Jan 2006 2:17pm

Harlem from Canada

Are people able to swim in these waters? Very remote location obviously, i just wonder of the safety of the water itself. Is it heavily laden with chemicals or safe as rain at Hooper Street?

24 Jan 2006 4:14pm

Aurélie from Auckland, New Zealand

The picture is taken from the top of Red Crater. The colour as you can see is just amazing. I also wondered if you could swim in those waters ... so I put my hand in it and did not get acid burnt (good news!) but it is definitely full of minerals like sufer.

24 Jan 2006 6:27pm

Garret Thomson from Canada

Yep, full of sulfer, also there are lakes around which only have sulfer in parts of them, which make the lakes dotted with green in clear blue tones. A beautiful area, this is around Rotorua, right?

I flew over here, I'm pretty sure, if this is in the middle of the North Island, in a water-plane 3 years ago. Absolutely gorgeous terrain.

31 Jan 2006 4:09am

rverspirit from Mount Vernon, United States

Spectacular....essence of nature.....

14 Oct 2007 3:00am

Steffen from Germany

Nice colours. I was last year in november around this area. But i saw nothing because the weather was very bad. No lake and no mountains. That´s life!

12 May 2009 12:00pm