Thursday, February 14, 2008

Maori Village

I went to a traditional hangi (feast cooked on hot rocks under the ground for 8 hours) in a forest maori village, 30min outside of Rotorua- it was awesome!!
This is the 'welcoming' ceremony.. they are deciding if we are friend or foe.. only by the song of a woman's voice will we be allowed to enter the village.

They demonstrated all their traditional skills.

Dance and song time.
Beautiful setting...the smell of wood smoke filled the air.. so great.


1 comment:

caribouman said...

very stupendous and great your site , i would like so much to go to new zealand but it s very expensive no i would like to talk with you even i a m french and my english is rough ok and congratulations to give me again to travel