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Geothermal Cooked Food Adds to Tourism Menu in Rotorua (Rotorua Daily Post)

Te Puia guide (left) Huia Clayton and chef Tamati
Wiringi lift the Steambox lunch out of the Puapua
steam vent. (Courtesy Rotorua Daily Post)

Iconic Rotorua tourist attraction Te Puia, the New Zealand Māori Arts & Crafts Institute, has cooked up a unique new experience that is giving visitors a real taste of the past.

The Steambox experience utilizes a favorite ngawha (steam vent) Puapua, which is in Te Whakarewarewa Geothermal Valley.

Visitors choose what they want for lunch which is then cooked in the steam vent, while they have a guided tour of Te Puia and the New Zealand Maori Arts and Crafts Institute.

After an interactive weaving session and a tour of the carving and weaving schools, visitors then head down into the geothermal valley to the Kiwi house, mud pools and hot springs, and finally, to watch their lunch being lifted from the ngawha. The guests then enjoy their picnic lunch on the geyser terrace.

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