Slideshow Index: Rotorua

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• Chiefs from each bus receiving instruction (Ron from MI, leftmost)
• Maori chief visitor challenge
• Maori chief completes visitor entrance ritual
• Other warriors chant and sing during ritual
• Maori women in traditional garb in the Tamaki Village
• Maori men entertaining the tourists
• The man on the left did the Chief's challenge
• One of several dances and songs in the Whare (house)
• Retired Englishwomen at our Hangi dinner table
• New friends from Meesiger Germany, Michael & Katrin
• Whakarewarewa Maori wood carving lessons center
• Our Maori guide illustrating rope construction from flax
• An elevated food storage building
• Guide showing us Whare meeting hall with history
• Whakarewarewa Thermal Village geothermal activity
• The town always smells of Hydrogen Sulfide from the hot springs
• A little rain with the hot springs and geysers
• Another view of the rocks and springs
• Boiling mud pots
• Closer view of a boiling mud pot
• Paradise Valley - feeding Boris the wild boar
• Deer are plentiful and farmed in New Zealand
• Our guide showing us the trout pool
• How's that for rainbow and brook trout?
• Kathy feeding the Wallabies
• Wallabies were imported from Australia
• Kathy with one of the Agrodome sheep before the show
• A total of twenty varieties were brought up for display
• Demonstrating sheep shearing (good shearers do 200 or more/day)
• The sheep after shearing
• A sheep dog demonstration herding some ducks
• Rotorua Museum of Art & History
• Entrance to the Government Gardens
• Found another Starbucks Coffee
• Waiting for our plane to Wellington
• Commuter plane from Rotorua to Wellington