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Rotorua Maori Village

Maori Village is located in the southeastern city of Rotorua.It is the center of the New Zealand native Maori culture, there are ancient Maori houses  with rushes, and palm branches into low humble,  there is an exhibition in the middle of the village, the internal display the unique Ma...

Maori Village is located in the southeastern city of Rotorua.It is the center of the New Zealand native Maori culture, there are ancient Maori houses  with rushes, and palm branches into low humble,  there is an exhibition in the middle of the village, the internal display the unique Maori carving, it is the best place for tourists to understand Polynesian culture. in the village there are Geysers, water jet up straight, more than 30 meters high, shining like silver chains, and it looks like the white lotus in full bloom.

Maori people are good at using geothermal cooking food, visitors can taste the authentic in rotorua stone pot, stone pot is put by the geothermal baking hot thin stone in the pit, then put the food


over one thousand years ago, Maori people  drift to the island in New Zealand from Polynesian island in dugout canoes. At that time, no human beings on the island, only birds. So the Maori became the island's aboriginal.

About three hundred thousand maoris in New Zealand, they are mostly farmers and herdsmen, and own their own land, mountains and waters, the British came more and more,Maori people had to sign agreement to allow them to come. Then a lot of British people come to New Zealand to open mine, railways,cut down forests of New Zealand's north island.most of the original forest was destroyed by the British.
now the Maori people have some privilege because they were almost killed during the period agains the British.

Food is given priority to with meat, fish, dairy products, appetite is big, both men and women is more magnificent, but they have their own language without words.