Say "Whakarewarewa" Three Times Fast

Whakarewarewa is a Maori village built around geysers and boiling water pools called geothermal springs. Geysers that spout steaming water out of the ground.  The water is steaming in the hot springs when the water comes up to the surface.  The magma in the ground heats the water in the ground and that's how the water steams.  That is really crazy.  It smells like rotten eggs there because of the sulphur and minerals in the water that come up to the surface.  I had to breath through my mouth he whole time!  It was really hard. 

My family went on a nature walk.  There were lots of lakes.  I saw bubbling mud.  If you stepped on the mud the you would fall through the really hot mud.  The geysers are caused by the springs.  The bubbling water springs are the hottest. 

Steaming Hot Springs

The Maoris lived around the hot springs and they used the hot water to cook food, to take baths, to swim, and to wash their clothes.  We saw Maori dancers in their meeting house.  The meeting house was located in the center of the village.  It had totem poles outside of it and people carved into statues.  The Maoris made traditional clothing from animal skins.

After we saw the spouting geysers, we walked around from shop to shop to try to find the perfect Maori spear.  The spear I wanted had feathers around it, had carvings in the front, and a special red rope the Maori's used to keep the feathers on.  In the Maori culture boys got to make spears when they were 8, that's when they started to train to be warriors.  I would have liked to be a warrior because i would get to make my own spear and I would get a big tattoo on my face.

I also bought a crystal kiwi for me, one for Ms. Lynch, and one for my class auction.  I think it will raise a lot of money in my class auction at school.  The kiwis are glass and very fragile and really really cool.

Later skater.