Mitai Maori Village Rotorua

After our brush with livestock royalty, we freshened up for a night out to a traditional Maori hangi. A hangi is the Maori equivalent to a Hawaiian luau, and there were many hangi options in the Rotorua area. We ended up choosing Mitai. Our guidebook had given it high marks and the hostel worker at Funky Green Voyager immediately recommended it. We …

We left Auckland this morning for our next stop - Rotorua. The weather cleared up beautifully and we had a good flow of traffic out of the city despite a small accident. Instead of heading down to Hamilton (on State Highway 1) we took the scenic route that passed the Coromdandel Penninsula. Beautiful ... absolutely beautiful! From there it was down …

The drive from Napier to Rotorua was much easier than the drive from Wellington to Napier. Rotorua features a lot of geyser activity and something Ben had wanted to do before we left, Zorbing. On the drive we stopped at a cool glass blowing gallery with a café attached. Kara got to get her coffee that she had missed during the first 100 miles. She …

After my first week at the new job I was lucky enough to score a long weekend which, happier still, happened to coincide with Australia Day. That's what I call fantastic timing! So in keeping with my 2013 plan to see as much of NZ as possible this year I decided to check out one of the more well known tourist areas of the North Island - Rotorua. …

Josh and I kept the car an extra day and took it to Rotorua on Wednesday. Rotorua is actually one of the closest places to Hamilton but I hadn't been there except to change buses. Our first stop was Orakei Korako Thermal Valley. We wanted to see some of the geothermal activity that this country is known for. The Hidden Valley is only accessible by …

The alarm goes off early on Wednesday morning, because a transfer of 405 kilometres is scheduled. The bus is already warming up its engine at 7:00 am to leave Paihia. One and a half hour later the bus arrives in Kawakawa. A town where coal was mined in the previous century, but currently it mainly focuses on agriculture. Kawakawa's biggest …

... weather completely changed when we had clear skies and a bit of sun. We were picked up from our campsite and brought to Mitai Maori Village where we were brought in and introduced to some of the family and taught a wee bit of the Maori language and a ...

... the Maori of New Zealand. Although far from authentic, there are a number of packaged options available and we picked the Mitai Maori Village. The entertainment value was pretty good with a traditional Maori meal dug up from a buried ‘oven’, ...

... Vorstellung unseres Guides, zeigte dieser uns unmittelbar das für uns vorbereitete Essen auf einer traditionellen Kochstelle der Maori. Im Anschluss folgten die Besichtigung einer Kaltwasserquelle, die täglich bis zu 25 Millionen Liter Wasser ...

A bus came to pick us up and take us to the Mitai Maori Village.  First we were all seated at our tables and our host introduces himself and tells us about the night.  He was a very entertaining and colorful Maori man.  He asked about ...

... one of the many Maori 'cultural experiences' on offer. The folk at the Funky Green had recommended the Mitai Maori Village, a family-run enterprise which offered an evening entertainment package consisting of a cultural performance followed by a 'hangi' ...

... away so we got there about 14:00. With so much of the afternoon still available I arranged for a trip out to the Mitai Maori Village which was maybe fifteen minutes away. The bus met us at the hotel and took us out where we converged with several other ...

... but you can check it out here - http://www.polynesianspa.co.nz/adultpools.html In the evening I headed off to the Mitai Maori Village for a cultural show dinner. The show started with the tribe sailing down the river on a Maori war canoe and ...

... was soaking wet. It was really a day to do laundry, sit in cafes and finish my book. In the evening I went to Mitai Maori village for a show and Hangi (underground BBQ) The guy introducing the evening was so funny and the show was really good. The food ...

... went to a Maori culture concert and Hangi in the evening. The concert is put on by the locals and I went to the Mitai Maori village. It was a bit touristy but still enjoyable. There was about 400 people who all ate a meal together cooked in a ...

... . It went down a treat with dessert. From there we had to rush back to the campsite where we awaited a tour to the Mitai Maori village for hangi and haka. It was a very good show. And the meal wasn't that bad. Of course Mckayla screamed throughout the ...