Day 6 tapati festival

It's been a lifetime dream to actually come here, and by pure chance the tapati festival is on while I'm here

There's a stage set up at hange vare vare and everything starts around 9pm tonight, so today's going to be a relaxing day until tonight.
Just going for tea and I was able to pop into the hall to see everyone practicing for tonight.
Well it certainly lived up to my expectations, what a really good night, didn't end until gone 1am 😊
Believe it or not the star of the show for me was a stray Alsatian ! It would appear that there are 3 or 4 stray dogs that wander and stroll around the area without a care in the world, they went absolutely anywhere and no one bothered them at all. Even to the extent that an Alsatian wandered on to the stage at least half a dozen times, and everyone just ignored it and danced around it, absolutely brilliant !Read more