Horomatangi Wood Carving Wairakei Terraces New Zealand

A wood carving of Horomatangi, an icon to the Maori people, sits on top of a stump at the Wairakei Terraces near Taupo, New Zealand.
At the Wairakei Terraces near Taupo, New Zealand, people can visit a Maori village where culture, tradition and life styles of the Maori people become real. Atop an old tree stump, a wood carving ...

Maori Warriors Wairakei Terraces Taupo New Zealand

Five Maori warriors pose for the camera and allow visitors to the Wairakei Terraces near Taupo, New Zealand to take a picture or two.
Dressed in traditional Maori clothing, a group of warriors pose for this picture at the Wairakei Terraces near Taupo on the North Island of New Zealand. These Maori warriors are tattooed, an impor ...

Whale Rider Movie Location Whangara East Cape New Zealand

Since the Whale Rider movie was released and this village served as a filming location, the town of Whangara on the East Cape has become a famous destination in New Zealand.
Seen from atop the hillside, the small community of Whangara on the East Cape on the North Island of New Zealand, sits along the scenic coastline of the Pacific Ocean. A village once unknown, was ...

Family House Maori Rewas Village Kerikeri Northland NZ

This house displayed at Rewa's Village in Kerikeri, Northland in NZ, was once used by the Chef's family and shows some of the ways life was in a Maori village.
While touring Rewa's Village located in Kerikeri in Northland, NZ, one can explore a house, rebuilt from sticks and items found in the forest, was once home to the Chef's family of a Maori village ...

Whangara Village Whale Rider East Cape Coastline NZ

Along the Pacific Ocean coastline off the North Island of NZ at East Cape, a small bay forms where the village of Whangara is found. This village was a simple blob on the map until The Whale Rider movie was filmed here.
The movie the Whale Rider was directed by Niki Caro, a New Zealand Maori author and was filmed in and around the small village of Whangara in East Cape, the most easterly point of NZ. The communit ...

Maori Village People Wairakei Terraces New Zealand

A Maori warrior and maiden, two of the people from a Maori village at the Wairakei Terraces near Taupo, New Zealand collecting fresh water from a waterfall.
At the Wairakei Terraces near Taupo on the North Island of New Zealand, visitors get a true sense of how the Maori people lived. A Maori warrior and maiden kneel beside a waterfall with a conch sh ...

Maori Village Totem Wairakei Terraces Taupo New Zealand

In the Maori village at the Wairakei Terraces near Taupo on the North Island of New Zealand, a carving on a totem symbolizes a Maori god.
A Pou or totem stands in a Maori village at the Wairakei Terraces near Taupo on the North Island of New Zealand, which has been carved with a variety of different faces symbolizing gods. In this p ...