Whakarewarewa Living Village from Tauranga: Hāngī Lunch Steam-Cooked in the Ground

Six and a half hours from the Tauranga port to Whakarewarewa and back, with a village guide, a 30-minute concert and lunch. Whakarewarewa is inhabited. The guide is one of the people who lives there, and the tour is largely about how a village works when the ground underneath it is boiling: cooking in the pools, bathing in the therapeutic water, and the steam boxes sunk into the earth where the hāngī is made. Lunch is that hāngī, eaten at the village café. Pōhutu Geyser erupts naturally through the day and is watched from a safe distance. The village also holds an active marae, two historic churches and tapu burial ground, all of which come with standards of behaviour the guide will explain. The performance runs thirty minutes: song, dance, warrior demonstrations, and the haka that New Zealand's sporting sides made famous. The rest of the day is the drive. Mount Maunganui, one of the most expensive beachside suburbs in the country, along Marine Parade. Tauranga, which has the largest port in New Zealand and is among its fastest growing cities. Te Puke and the orchards around it, which produce 85 percent of the national kiwifruit crop, with their windbreaks. Two lakes, forest, and the Rotorua Government Gardens, where the Elizabethan building was the first health spa in the country and is now the Rotorua Museum, with the Blue Baths and Rachel's Spring beside it. The start time is confirmed when the booking is accepted. Cancel at least 24 hours before departure for a full refund.