Rotorua, New Zealand City Guide

For over 20 years, Pamela Lanier's Rotorua, New Zealand Travel Guide has been your connection to Rotorua's tourism community with invaluable details on local attractions, restaurants, shopping, museums, history, outdoor recreation and more.

Attractions

A wide range of events and activities relating to Maori culture are experienced in Rotorua. Concerts with traditional dancing and singing are often hosted whilst arts and crafts work are available for viewing and purchase. Waiotapu is Maori for "sacred waters", an area just south of Rotorua, features spectacular champagne pools, a series of enormous hot pools that are a color rich mixture of gold, yellow and orange, caused by mineral salts in the water. The Lady Knox geyser fires out a plume of steaming water each morning around 10:00. The Arawa tribes were the main pre-European inhabitants of Rotorua. The traditional centre for the Arawa people remains Ohinemutu, situated on the shore of lake Rotorua (near the city centre). Ohinemutu contains a marae and the Tamatekapua meeting house (named after the leader of the canoe in which the Arawa came to Rotorua).

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