Rotorua Holiday Accommodation at Whakarewarewa

Whakarewarewa (known as "Whaka" and prounounced "Fha-ka" by the locals) has some of New Zealand's most famous tourist attractions. For example, the Living Maori Thermal Village is home to the Tuhourangi/Ngati Wahiao people who settled there after the Tarawera eruption destroyed their homes at Te Wairoa. You can see remants of a destroyed settlement at the Buried Village and learn more about the eruption at the Rotorua Bathouse Museum. 

The Living Maori Thermal Village is in the midst of one of Rotorua's most active thermal areas. Houses in the village are set amongst hot springs and mud pools. The people from the Village will show you their ancestral meeting house and the mineral pools used for generations for bathing, then share their traditional song, dance and culture as well as a meal cooked in thermal steam vents. Froude Hall iis just outside the Thermal Village in an area that was subdivided in the 1940's to ease overcrowding in the village. Most of the homes in the area are still owned by the origonal families. The three types of flax on the property are still collected for weaving, with each type used to make a different item (some of which are for sale at the village). 

Also, the Thermal Valley at Te Puia is at Whakarewarewa, Pohutu geyser has been famed throughout the world since the 1800's; it still erupts about 20 times a day. Te Puia is also home to the Maori Arts and Crafts Institute, which was opened in 1963 under an official act of Parliament to teach traditional Maori crafts such as carving and weaving - arts many feared would become lost but now are thriving. In addition at Te Puia, there is also a nocturnal kiwi house and the kòrero walk, an easy walk through the Whakarewarewa valley combined with the power of Maori stories.

Also within very short walking distance is the Arikikapakapa Rotorua Golf Club , which must be unique in in the world with its mud pool hazards and steaming lakes. A somewhat longer walk would bring you to Whaka Forest, which is known far and wide as a special place to mountain bike. A highlight for anyone is the Redwood Grove, where the size and beauty of the trees rivals the coastal redwoods of California. 

All of these are famed attractions within the region and a pride of the New Zealand!.