History Comes Alive
at Mitai Maori Village Rotorua New Zealand

Maori culture comes to vivid life at Mitai Maori Village Rotorua New Zealand. This is your chance to experience comprehensive ancient customs, rituals, entertainment, and beliefs of the native New Zealand tribe in their sacred freshwater springs setting.

Mitai Maori Village Rotorua New Zealand offers interactive educational exposure to legendary Maori culture year round through scheduled performances and guided tours.

You can arrange guided tours throughout the day that will introduce you to members of the Mitai Whanau family, Maori medicines, carvings, meditation sites, and Taonga (gifts). Tours also take you on walks through tranquil bush settings and visit unique natural fish and insect habitats.

Cultural performances begin with Powhiri, the formal tribal welcome in an ancient Whakaue village setting, where guests also experience traditional dances, weaponry displays, and enjoy a traditionally prepared Maori feast.

The experience includes a guided bush walk that explains medicines, food, and other uses of native flora and fauna enroute to famous Rainbow Fairy Springs and a glow worm tour. Fairy Springs offers the chance too see eels and trout that live in its crystal clear waters flowing from the earth. This is also the only opportunity in Rotorua to see New Zealand’s famous glow worms in their natural habitat.

Mitai Maori Village Rotorua New Zealand bills itself as a sacred and spiritual place, reflected in a cultural interpretation of its indigenous people that’s unlike any other. As you enter the world of Mitai, you will be enchanted by warriors in traditional garb paddling down the Wai-o-whiro stream in their waka ( warrior canoe), and amazed by their displays of weaponry and combat.

The Mitai Maori Village Rotorua New Zealand experience includes a traditionally cooked hangi meal, which visitors can see being lifted from its in-ground pit preparation. The authentic menu includes New Zealand lamb, chicken, potatoes, sweet potatoes, stuffing, and a range of vegetables and saleads, plus desserts of tropical fruit salad, chocolate log, and trifle.

Their cultural performance takes you back in time through song, dance, and legend, and teaches about the Mitai past through its carvings and ta moko (tattoo art), as well as traditional poi dance.

Beyond the Mitai Village visit is a unique opportunity to tour Rainbow Springs Nature Park by night under colored lights, including a nocturnal kiwi encounter, in the special “Beauty by Night” tour.

Mitai Maori Village Rotorua New Zealand offers travelers an unparalleled, extraordinary native NZ cultural experience, not to be missed on your New Zealand vacation.

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