Tamaki Maori Village Rotorua

We boarded the boat and ditched the campervan under deck. We prepared for the 4 hour journey to the North Island over the pacific ocean. The boat was packed with about 80% rugby fans, with the North Island being the epicenter of the world cup really. About an hour in everyone was bouncing up off their seats and staring and pointing out the window. …

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We left the hostel early that morning to go and get a nice walk in whilst a group off our bus went and did there session of the Water Rafting. The walk was around the Ruakuri Reserve which was about a half an hour bush walk taking in the limestone rock formations, caves, native forests and river systems.

After this amazing walk we …

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Today we started Day 4 of our Road Trip, and we did hit the road once again. Making our way down to the central part of North Island, we drove from Thames to Rotorua. We left our comfy campground around 11:30 a.m., stopped at a rest stop for a late lunch at around 2:30 and made it to Cosy Cottages Holiday Resort somewhere around …

Aujourd'hui nous nous sommes réveillés à environ 9 heures parce que nous devions être hors du terrain de camping par 11 heures. Sur le chemin hors de Thames, nous nous sommes arrêtés dans un magazin pour obtenir un couple de choses. Quand nous avons quitté la ville, nous étions sur le chemin de l'endroit où nous irons rester ce soir. Il était 3 …

Quite incredible to think that this time last year we were both getting ready for our wedding – although a bit complicated to try to think about that when the time difference is so big! We had a home-made breakfast at the motel in Whakatane, had a mad search for the room key to check out which was eventually found on the back seat of the car …

Rortarua: the smelly city

Ok if we had lot that the thermal park at Taupo was smelly, oh my goodness sulphur city!!! This place stinks. You think you are getting used to it and then another big lot of stink comes your way. How do people live here? On top of that this area is really thermally active - things could go off anytime. Again why …

We woke up in a farm this morning (nope, no roosters), and paid Steve and Heather a visit. So to set the context, their's a dairy farm. They had a lot of Guernsey Cows, and the milk of these cows were used to make cheese. Some more facts! Cows produce 20l of milk daily and they actually like being milked or they'll feel very swollen. (i think …

... Tamaki Maori Village is excellent.... this is what happens (copied from the website) The Waka (Coach Trip) Enroute to Tamaki Maori Village, your guide will instruct you on the rules and protocol for visiting Marae (meeting grounds). It is customary ...

... energetic thermal activity in the country, yes you could smell rotten eggs. That evening we visited the Tamaki Maori village for a Maori Concert and Hangi which was really a great experience. There was great entertainment with beautiful Maori songs ...

... He looked much larger than we expected and a little odd without his wings! That evening we headed to the Tamaki Maori Village outside Rotorua which seemed a little like Bunratty! It gave an interesting insight into Maori culture and was cool to eat hangi ...

... Pool with various spots of mineral color. Check out the pictures to see what I mean. At night I went to the Tamaki Maori village for some local culture. A village warrior welcomed us with a traditional haka - a very scary dance meant to intimidate ...

... Nikki and I had been looking forwards to since we arrived and we weren't to be disappointed. Tonight we would go to Tamaki Maori Village... set up to replicate a Pre-European Maori village... but first we had to get there! The gang (including Loud ...

... hand signals. It was all very entertaining and informative. This evening we immersed ourselves in Maori culture at the Tamaki Maori village. We were picked up from our hotel and taken to the village which is set in a beautiful forest outside Rotorua. ...

... ducky!  The whole experience lasted about 45 minutes and was well worth it. Later that night, I booked a trip to the Tamaki Maori Village which is a cultural dinner/show/etc where you are able to learn about the Maori Culture (the native ppl of ...

... anyway there were too many steep declines). We finished off the day with a Maori experience evening at the Tamaki Maori Village it was a great evening of entertainment.  This included a performance of various traditional dances and songs and ...

... for future reference. In the evening Gem and I embarked on the ultimate Maori experience. We visited Tamaki Maori village, where we went back in time to a pre-European Maori village, learning and practising stories, protocols and ...

... idea when everyone else that done it came in soaked through and freezing cold! Everyone in the group came to a place called the Tamaki Maori Village which is a kind of cultural heritage centre run by the local Maori - its the best one I've seen - its ...