Patrick Tamati, left, and Te Taru White of Te Puia Maori Arts & Crafts Institute, New Zealand, share the history and traditions of their Maori cuisine.
- Patrick Tamati, left, and Te Taru White of Te Puia Maori Arts & Crafts Institute, New Zealand, share the history and traditions of their Maori cuisine.
- Te Puia PR manager Patrick Tamati gives us the skinny on Maori culinary culture and traditions. It's all about sustainability and Slow Food at its most organic.
- Chef Shane Beattie sweats over his cooking cauldron, the steaming thermal water of Ngararatuatara.
- Our lunch of green-lipped mussels both in a salad cooked in the geothermal 'lizard' pool plus prawns, corn and other Maori specialties.
- The dramatic Pohutu Geyser at Te Puia erupts once or twice an hour and blasts up to heights of 100 feet.
- The entrance to Te Puia, New Zealand's Maori Arts & Crafts Institute, established by an act of parliament to preserve Maori culture and traditions.
- Patrick Tamati tells us stories of Maori women who have made their mark and inspired people with their courage, tenacity and compassion.
- Te Whakarewarewa Geothermal Valley, home of Te Puia, the Maori Arts & Crafts Institute, Rotorua, New Zealand.
- Patrick Tamati points out a tea tree. (You must have bought tee tree oil at some point.)
- Have you ever seen a name as long as this? It's on a sign at Te Puia.
- Powhiri, or the ceremonial welcome, when visitors are welcomed to the ancestral meeting house to watch a cultural performance at Te Puia.
- A traditional dance in Rotowhio Pa, a sacred space where the people of Te Puia connect with their ancestors and where visitors can view cultural traditions.
- The author reclines on the trampoline of a catamaran on Lake Rotoiti, one of Rotorua's many lakes.
- Okawa Bay, one of many scenic lake spots in the Rotorua area.
- You can fish for trout, soak in thermal pools on the water's edge, or laze on the deck with a glass of New Zealand wine on this Pure Cruise cat, skippered by Tina Masters and Matt Horder.
- Back to the erupting Pohutu geyser at Te Puia. The area has hot springs, boiling sulphurous pools, silica terraces and bubbling mud pools.
- A Maori carving in the Te Puia entrance gathering place.
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