The Kawhia traditional Maori kai festival is Kawhia's biggest day. A genuine taste experience of Traditional Maori Kai from the sea and the land...Thousands of visitors flock to Kawhia every year for the annual food festival on Waitangi weekend in early february.

The Next Kawhia Traditional Maori kai (food) festival is on Saturday Feb, 3rd 2007. The Kawhia traditional Maori kai festival is Kawhia's biggest day. A genuine taste experience of Traditional Maori Kai from the sea and the land...Thousands of visitors flock to Kawhia every year for the annual food festival on Waitangi weekend in early february.

The Next Kawhia Traditional Maori kai (food) festival is on Saturday Feb, 3rd 2007.
The last kai festival attracted nearly 10,000 people and the next one is expected to double that figure. It's an awesome day full of cultural activities and a huge tasty array of delicious, mouth-watering, traditional and modern Maori kai.
A band meanwhile keeps the large crowds entertained while stall-holders cook up a storm in their undercover shelters. Occasionally Maori kapa-haka groups gather on stage to give an arousing performance, that pulls the mass of visitors from the food stalls and sends a shiver of excitement through them.
Multitudes of kids throng to the wharf and beach a few metre's away to cool off in the tide and a harbour cruise vessel journeys up and down the harbour, taking people on history cruises.
For many Tainui people, the Kawhia kai festival has become a day for renewing ties with whanau & friends, while re-connecting with their spiritual homeland. For others, it's an opportunity to participate in a friendly Maori experience. The MC for the day last year was 'Pio Terei' who was at his funniest. Lets hope he's here again next Kawhia kai festival..
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