Nice view of Pihanga mountain.
A 2 hour drive to Rotorua (you need to go there and do the luge!!) stop along the way to see Huka falls and craters of the moon.
2 warnings for travellers:
1. there is a large ditch at the end of the driveway that will damage your car if you don’t drive SUPER slow. It scraped the bottom of our car every time.
2. The house can really cool down at night and there is no heater in the main bedroom. We learned the hard way the first night. For the second night, we put the wood stove on in the evening until bed so we would have some heat throughout the night.