Mitai Maori Village Rotorua

196 Fairy Springs Road, Rotorua , North Island, New Zealand - Phone: + 64 7 3439132

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    A Symbolic Evening

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    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 …

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    Land of Many People

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    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 …

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    Rotorua Day Trip

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    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 …

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    Our Indigenous Cultural Experience

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    ... 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 ...

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    Day 12a Mitai Maori Village

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    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 ...

  • 3

    Sulphur City

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    ... 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' ...

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    Land of Many People

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    ... 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 ...

  • 5

    Thermal pools and Maori shows

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    ... 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 ...

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    Bubbling Cauldren

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    ... 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’, ...

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    White-water Rafting!!!!!!

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    ... 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 ...

  • 8

    Around Rotorua

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    ... . 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 ...

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    Rotorua

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    ... intriguing but also seemed to be gradually diminishing. For the evening we had chosen a Maori Experience at the "Mitai Maori Village'. This was to be a display of Maori culture and singing in an authentic (reconstructed) village, followed by a ...

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    Waitomo to Rotorua

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    ... . Very unusual! When we arrived in Rotorua we checked into the hotel then were picked up on a bus to go to the Mitai Maori village. We saw a pit where they were cooking a Hangi dinner by burying it with hot coals, then went down to the river where ...