As it was raining hard again today we decided to go to the museum which is in an imposing building on top of a hill in the middle of Auckland. It has an amazing collection of NZ and Maori exhibits as well as a really cool interactive Volcano experience - Auckland is on Volcanic terrain!!!! - eek! We paid an extra $15 on top of the $5 donation to get into the museum, to watch a 30 minute Maori show which included native dance, songs, games and the infamous Rugby "Haka" dance used to intimate the english rugby players in international games vs NZ. Pretty cool stuff and they were great people too so well worth it. We since found out, if you buy the Maori Experience show, you dont need to donate $5 to go
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