Kia Ora

Trip Start Mar 14, 2006
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Sunday, January 14, 2007

More rain fell again this morning making it feel like half the pacific ocean had been dumped overhead during the past week.

Rotorua has no shortage of Maori sites and villages most based around the many geothermal areas with Te Puia on the edge of town the one I choose to check out. Te Puia is a mix of Maori village pieces with boiling mud, steaming ground and a few geysers, although they did seem more like little squirts today barely reaching a few feet up. Also here is a large Maori meeting house where they put on a short concert requiring shoes to be removed before entry. Although touristific the few dances and songs were well performed including the hakka appearing much different to that on TV probably due to the lack of a rugby ball.

Going naked again (in bus name only) to Auckland the $10 fare was a bargain especially when the driver dropped me off almost at the doorstep to the hostel which appeared to be as far from the city centre as it could possibly be.
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