Visitors watch Lady Knox Geyser erupt in the Wai-O-Tapu Thermal Wonderland in New Zealand. The park is in Rotorua, where most of the island's thermal features are located.

Maybe for folks who grew up near Old Faithful, a viewing of the Pohutu Geyser on New Zealand's North Island can be taken more or less in stride.

Boiling mud was thrown 30 feet into the air from a geyser in the backyard of a home in Rotorua, New Zealand.

A BAY of Plenty resident has described her fear after waking to the sound of a “geyser” of water shooting 20m to 30m in the air from Lake Rotorua in New Zealand.

Standing inside the volcanic caldera on New Zealand's White Island, among steaming geysers, I asked the guide the question everyone was thinking.