The trip to the Tamaki Māori Village began with a short walk from our hostel to the Tamaki pick-up base on Hinemaru Street. In the building we changed our vouchers into tickets. Every ticket showed your name, the name of the bus you had to take, the driver’s name and the table number on which you have to sit for the later Hangi meal. We were a bit too early at the base, so we sat down to read through the info sheets. They were provided in different languages like English, French, Japanese, Arabic, German, Swedish, etc. Furthermore they explained the history of Tamaki’s foundation and what would happen during the evening. The bus driver welcomed his guests in the most different languages from all over the world. With further All Blacks jokes and funny comments
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