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Tamaki Maori Village, Rotorua, New Zealand

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Right now, we can't travel anywhere, so I am finally getting around to doing some armchair travel on my blog.  Two years ago this month, my family went to New Zealand for a vacation.  It was my third trip to New Zealand and their second.   I wanted to take my family to places that they had never been to before that I enjoyed, and one place that I had never been to as I couldn't fit it in on my 2008 trip (yep, that long ago).  Sadly, the family did not like the places that I had enjoyed as much as I did, and I didn't enjoy them as much as a result, but hey, that's the joys of family travel. After a brief stopover in Auckland, on the North Island, we took the bus to Rotorua.  They have a great intercity bus network in New Zealand, and it is a cheap way to see the country side and get from A to B (although not fast). While in Rotorua, we visited the Tamaki Maori Village .  I think it is great to take in some Maori culture while in New Zealand, even if it ...