24th May 2015 Avatiu Harbour, Rarotonga ,Cooks islands . Traditional master navigator Tua Pittman (front ) welcomes the Vaka voyagers who docked at Rarotonga for the inaugural ‘Te Manava Vaka Festival’ organised as part of the Cook Islands 50th anniversary celebrations . These are to be joined by five sister double-hulled voyaging canoes from Fiji, Samoa and Tahiti and two canoes from Aotearoa .The main traditional welcoming ceremony is taking place Monday 25 .5 .2015 at Avana historical site where ancient seafarers set off on 7 Vahas for thousands of miles, car
24th May 2015 Avatiu Harbour, Rarotonga ,Cooks islands . Traditional master navigator Tua Pittman (front ) welcomes the Vaka voyagers who docked at Rarotonga for the inaugural ‘Te Manava Vaka Festival’ organised as part of the Cook Islands 50th anniversary celebrations . These are to be joined by five sister double-hulled voyaging canoes from Fiji, Samoa and Tahiti and two canoes from Aotearoa .The main traditional welcoming ceremony is taking place Monday 25 .5 .2015 at Avana historical site where ancient seafarers set off on 7 Vahas for thousands of miles, carrying everything they would need, from root crops and seeds to domestic animals, to thrive in a new land.'Aotearoa' New Zealand . The Te Manava Vaka festival is a celebration of the essence, heart and soul of the origins of vaka including a showing of the film of ‘Te Mana O Te Moana’ Voyage when seven Vaka Moanas (recreated with grp hulls not dug out trees)sailed a combined 210,000 nautical miles of open-ocean during the 2010-2012 ‘Te Mana O Te Moana’ Voyage. Gary Blake /Alamy Live
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Location: Avatiu Harbour, Rarotonga ,Cooks islands, South Pacific
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