Opening hours, prices and tickets for places worth your time.
Polynesian Spa is a geothermal bathing complex on the shore of Lake Rotorua beside the Government Gardens, on a site where bath houses have stood since 1882. Its 28 mineral pools, between 33 and 41 °C, are fed by the acidic Priest Spring and the alkaline Rachel Spring and include family pools, private pools and pools looking out over the lake.
Whakarewarewa – The Living Māori Village is the home of the Tūhourangi Ngāti Wāhiao people of Te Arawa, in the geothermal valley on the southern edge of Rotorua. Residents guide visitors past the Wahiao meeting house, hot pools and steam vents still used for cooking and bathing, and the village holds cultural performances with kapa haka.
Te Puia is a Māori cultural centre and geothermal park in Te Whakarewarewa valley, on the southern edge of Rotorua. Guided tours lead past Pōhutu Geyser, mud pools and silica terraces to a kiwi conservation centre and the New Zealand Māori Arts and Crafts Institute, where carvers and weavers train; kapa haka performances take place on the marae.
The Agrodome is a working farm and visitor attraction at Ngongotaha, north of Rotorua, founded in 1971 by the sheep shearer Godfrey Bowen and the farmer George Harford. Its farm show puts rams of many breeds, shearing and sheepdogs on stage, and a covered tractor-trailer tour crosses the 350-acre farm, where visitors feed deer, alpacas and other animals.
The Buried Village of Te Wairoa, south-east of Rotorua on the road to Lake Tarawera, keeps the excavated remains of a Māori and European village buried by ash and mud in the eruption of Mount Tarawera on 10 June 1886. A museum shows objects recovered from the ash, and a trail leads past the excavated sites to the Te Wairoa Falls.
Hell's Gate, known in Māori as Tikitere, is a geothermal park and mud spa on State Highway 30, about 15 km north-east of central Rotorua, owned by the Ngāti Rangiteaorere people. A walking track passes steaming lakes, boiling pools, a mud volcano and Kakahi Falls, a waterfall of hot water, and visitors can bathe in geothermal mud and sulphur pools.
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