Rotorua, NZ - Te Puia Maori Center

With Jim Archer of Archer Tours:   Te Puia the Maori Cultural Centre where I will guide you every step of the way, explaining the meaning of the Maori carvings, Maori Protocol, history, myths, legends and beliefs. You will also go to a Maori cultural performance experiencing the traditional challenge plus song and dance including the fearsome Haka or posture dance.

Our tour:  Archer Tours can help with your shore excursion when your ship calls at the Port of Tauranga for the day. I specialize in a 6-hour tour to Rotorua the Maori Culture capital of New Zealand and the centre of the Geo-Thermal region of NZ.

You will take a drive along the waterfront of Pilot Bay Mount Maunganui, then along the picturesque Marine Parade, Mount Maunganui's surf beach with it’s many luxurious homes.

You will pass through Te Puke the “Kiwi Fruit Capital” of NZ and stop to visit Kiwi 360 a Kiwi Fruit orchard where we will explain to you, and show you, how the Kiwi fruit is grown. You will have the opportunity to taste some of the products; for example the new Gold Kiwi Fruit and the little Kiwi Berries, plus Kiwi Fruit wine and Liqueur. Of course there is the inevitable gift shop where you can purchase NZ Made products also.

You will continue your tour to Rotorua where you will visit the Rotorua lakefront for great photo opportunities and take a walk through the Government Gardens.

You will go to Te Puia the Maori Cultural Centre where we will guide you every step of the way, explaining the meaning of the Maori carvings, Maori Protocol, history, myths, legends and beliefs. You will also go to a Maori cultural performance experiencing the traditional challenge plus song and dance including the fearsome Haka or posture dance.

I will guide you down into the geo-thermal valley to see the boiling mud pools and steaming geysers erupting up to 30-meteres in the air. Pohutu geyser is a Natural geyser unlike the geyser where soap powder is inserted to make it erupt, which is how they know it will erupt at 10:15am everyday.

I will guide you through a Kiwi House where you will see our National bird, the flightless and endangered Kiwi Bird.

As I am an Indigenous New Zealanders you can be sure that the stories of our people and our culture are genuine, plus you will hear about New Zealand history from both a Maori and non-Maori perspective.


I am a tour guide not just a bus or taxi driver so I will guide you around the sites, not just drop you off at the gate to find your own way around, unless that is what you want. You will be looked after every step of your tour.