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Tamaki Maori Village Cultural Experience & Hangi Dinner
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Tamaki Maori Village Cultural Experience & Hangi Dinner
Tamaki Maori Village Cultural Discovery & Hangi Feast
Tamaki Maori Village Cultural Experience & Hangi Dinner

TE PA TU - Maori Cultural Tour

By Te Pā Tū
4.7 out of 5
Features
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
Overview
  • Discovering unique Maori heritage, culture & customs
  • Traditional welcome ceremony
  • Interactive pre-European village
  • Feast on song, drama, tradition, and divine cuisine
  • Authentic & expressive cultural performance

Activity location

  • Te Pā Tū
    • 1072 State Highway 5
    • 3073, Tumunui, Waikato, New Zealand

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • The Gathering Place
    • 1220 Hinemaru Street
    • 3010, Rotorua, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand

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Sorry this activity isn't available on Fri, 29 Mar
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What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedTamaki Maori Cultural Experience
  • What's includedWhat's includedAdmission fees
  • What's includedWhat's includedDinner and dessert
  • What's includedWhat's includedReturn transport from Tamaki Gathering Place - 1220 Hinemaru st, Rotorua
  • What's includedWhat's includedLive tour commentary in English

Know before you book

  • Children 4 and younger are complimentary when accompanied by a paying adult.
  • This venue is wheelchair accessible.
  • Please contact Tamaki Maori Village to reconfirm your booking 48 hours before your activity date and advise any special dietary requirements
  • Return transport is available from Rotorua central location.
  • Please be ready and waiting 10 minutes prior to your scheduled pick-up time.

What you can expect

Te Pa Tu (previously Tamaki Maori Village)

Feast on song, drama, tradition, and divine seasonal kai (cuisine) within our forest Pa (village) blanketed by towering Tawa trees, its blazing bonfires, and forest-formed amphitheatre.

Te Pa Tu offers 4-hour evening events that change with each season of the maramataka, the Maori lunar calendar.

Across summer, Tu Te Ra celebrates an abundant harvest, and we explore concepts, rituals, and stories of ancient Maori warfare and peace.

Throughout winter, Tu Te Ihi marks promise heralded by the arrival of the Matariki star cluster which high and bright in winter skies, signalling the new lunar year – we share the energy and passion of this celebration.

Cultural knowledge unique to each season is shared from the outset – rituals, songs, stories and continue across the night. From the beginning too, we share local, seasonal kai - plentiful and delicious. Kai horotai (indigenous canapes) is followed by a torch lit walk to a lavish 3-course fusion feast.

Our world famous traditional hangi shares the table with other seasonal delicacies. Meats, foraged plants, seafood, local produce are prepared in a fusion of cooking techniques, Maori and global. All our kai draws purpose and inspiration from Maori flavours, healing properties, history, heroes.

Cleaning and safety practices

Enhanced cleanliness measures
  • High-touch surfaces cleaned and disinfected
  • Vehicles and venues cleaned with disinfectants
Social distancing
  • Contactless ticket redemption
Safety measures
  • Hand sanitiser provided
This information is provided by our partners

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIESTe Pā Tū
    • 1072 State Highway 5
    • 3073, Tumunui, Waikato, New Zealand

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLEThe Gathering Place
    • 1220 Hinemaru Street
    • 3010, Rotorua, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand