Cultural Experience

Cultural Experience
From NZD $75.00
  • Duration: 90 Minutes (approx.)
  • Location: Gisborne
  • Product code: PCBJLR

Enjoy epic stories of the region’s voyaging history and it’s Māori ancestors without leaving the harbour. Take a journey through time with our local storytellers while on board the waka.

  • Meet and greet with host

  • Traditional Māori welcome

  • Stories about Aotearoa (New Zealand’s) historic voyagers - from Māui and Kupe, to Kiwa, Paikea and Lieutenant James Cook

  • Learn about the Tairāwhiti historic canoes and the immense navigational feats that led to the discovery of the Pacific Ocean Islands

  • Explore our taonga (treasure), the Waka Hourua ‘Tairāwhiti’

  • Question time and photos before you depart the waka as a member of our whanau (family)