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TAMAKI MAORI VILLAGE – EVENING CULTURAL EXPERIENCE New Zealand’s Most Awarded Cultural Experience!
Experience an evening of ceremonial ritual, powerful cultural performance, storytelling & hangi feasting! Share in the Powhiri, our ancient ceremony of welcome before entering our pre-European Maori Village nestled within a native Tawa Forest. The village comes alive with sights, sounds & activity of days gone by including haka, poi, tattooing, weaving, carving and arts of warrior training. You will have the opportunity to participate in these activities. Witness the earth being scraped away from the hangi pit to reveal baskets of food cooked beneath the ground on hot stones. Enter the ancestral meeting house and enjoy a powerful cultural performance before dining the traditional hangi buffet feast!

Our evening experience is 3.5 hours in duration, and includes:
• Return transport from Rotorua Accommodation
• Traditional welcoming ceremony
• Interactive time spent with our people in a living Pre-European Maori Village
• View the lifting of the hangi meal
• Powerful and entertaining cultural performance
• Traditional Hangi Buffet feast, followed by a sumptuous dessert buffet
• Vegetarians and other special dietary requirements catered for upon request
• Licensed bar available
• Water, tea, coffee, hot chocolate & traditional Kawakawa tea included
• Poroporoaki – closing ceremony of speeches and songs of farewell
• Wheelchair accessible
• High chairs available
• Licensed bar available
• Please bring a warm jacket, sensible footwear and your camera