This is an actual village where Mauri people still live, work, and play. The whole place is built on thermal springs, and they use them in lots of daily life, from cooking to swimming, to heating their homes in the winter, and most importantly to attract tourists in so they can sell us junk!!
This is the cooking pool, we had some corn cooked in a bag swished around in this water. A bit sulfury tasting, but not bad actually.
Pohutu geyser, New Zealand's largest one!
This pool was so vigorously boiling and steaming you could hardly see when you walked the bridge over it.
Kathy just liked this... The Mauri intimidation dancing always includes wide eyes and a stuck out tongue.
How cool that there ARE still villages where the natives live... Walking by native artisans selling goods to get by, I was thinking about how sad it is that we've pushed them out and forced them to live in our monetary system... I wonder what the mauri would be up to if they didn't have to try and make money?
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