Today we drove (Eric starting, as it is a standard) to Rotorua. We took the motorway out of Auckland, very civilized, no DVP crazy drivers. We pulled onto a secondary motorway (#2), which is just two lanes with occasional passing lanes, and wound up and down, around and about. We went through a beautiful gorge - even in the rain. We stayed at the Funky Green Voyager in Rotorua, another BBH hostel. Good conversations among the guests.
We went to the Mitai Maori Village cultural performance and hangi (feast) in the evening. It was a further elaboration of what we had learned at the museum - they turned us all (11 nations) into a tribe for the evening, had a volunteer chief, went down to the river to watch the real tribe paddle a war canoe in, and into an amphitheatre for the performance. The Hangi is an earth oven - they superheat stones, throw clams on top of that for moisture and flavour, and cook lamb, chicken, sweet potatoes (dark skins, paler insides than what we are used to) and regular potatoes. The food is all permeated by the smoky flavouring, very good.
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