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This is the land of the tallest trees, the sweetest potatoes and the largest harbour. But it's also the land that time forgot. People come here to switch off, chill out and lap up the slower pace
This is the land of the tallest trees, the sweetest potatoes and the largest harbour. But it's also the land that time forgot. People come here to switch off, chill out and lap up the slower pace
THE KAIPARA HARBOUR
Kauri Coast events 2021
Dargaville
Along the Kauri Coast Highway
Get up close TĀNE MĀHUTA: LORD OF THE FOREST
1 Kauri country
Waipoua Walks
Swamp kauri
Footprints Waipoua
Kauri dieback
Matakohe Kauri Museum
WHILE THERE
3 kaikoura peninsula walkway
TAKE A SHORTCUT
3 kaikoura peninsula walkway
Kai Iwi Lakes Campground
Dargaville Museum
Packard Motor Museum
Hug a tree in Pahi
Explore the Pouto Peninsula
Dargaville rail tours
Tokatoka Peak
Trounson Kauri Park
Maunganui Bluff
Kauri Bushman’s Walk
Kauri Coast Cycleway
Kaipara Missing Link
Cycle
Other ways to explore Ripirō Beach
Drive
Fishing
Golf
The Thirsty tui
Zest
Matich's
Blah Blah Blah
Antiques and Oddities
Good Life
Gallery 28
Dreams
Kumara
THE KŪMARA BOX:
Wild West Worcester
Maungatapere Berries
Down on the Farm
FOR A TASTE OF NORTHLAND:
Wild Forest Estate
Save:
Splurge:
Old Post Office Guest House
Kauri Coast Top 10 Holiday Park
Highfield Glamping
HASTINGS DISTRICT
HASTINGS DISTRICT
THIS IS A LAND
Hastings DISTRICT events 2021
Hastings/Heretaunga
Havelock North
1 Te Mata park
Walking tracks
Peak House
Highlights The Big Redwoods:
Getting There
Gimblett Gravels
2 explore hastings wine country
History
The region
Coastal
Bridge PA Triangle Wine District
Mountainside
TE MATA ESTATE
3 Farmers' market
Waimarama Maori Tours
Maraetotara Falls
Te Kauwae-a-MAui/Cape Kidnappers
Birdwoods Gallery
Hunter Gatherer Tours
Waipatiki
Waimarama
CyclE
Popular rides
Walks
FISHING OK
Golf
Cape Kidnappers
Pipi Café
Hygge at Clifton Bay
St Georges
Y’a Bon and Cupple
Heretaunga Street East 200 Block
Sazio
Fun Buns
Common Room
Ola Pacifica
Hohepa Cheese
The Strawberry Patch
Rush Munro’s ice creamery
Te Mata Figs
Arataki Honey Visitor Centre
Hastings Distillers
Zeffer cider co
Brave Brewing CO
Smith & Sheth
Hawthorne Coffee
SO VINTAGE
MONIQUE THERESE
COCO AND CO
David Trubridge
Wardini Books
Wine Country Craft
Ema Scott
Artists
Art Inc Heretaunga, Hastings Community Art Centre
Te Whare toi o Heretaunga Hastings City Art Gallery
Muse
Kate MacKenzie
Spaceship
Craggy Range
Cottages on St Andrews
Tom’s Cottage
Clifton Glamping
Porters Boutique Hotel
Waipatiki Beach Holiday Park
Kia ora
Kia ora
Hunterville to Levin events 2021
GETTING THERE
Water is the defining
LEVIN
HUNTERVILLE
FOXTON
BULLS
WAITARERE
HIMATANGI
MARTON
THE MANAWATU RIVER AND ESTUARY: A WORLD WONDER
RAFT THE RANGITIKEI
Riverside Cultural Park
FOR A CUPPA:
Riverside Cultural Park
Te Awahou Nieuwe Stroom
Whare Manaaki
Flax Stripper Museum
Look back and learn
Off the Loop
SH54 to Stormy Point
FOXTON TO FOXTON BEACH AND THE MANAWATU ESTUARY
A side trip to St Simon and St Jude Anglican Church, Rongotea
WaitArere Forest
Wanganui Road, Marton to Turakina
Spot-a-bull
Middle Earth Adventure Park
Levin Adventure Park
Foxton Beach skatepark and pump track
Whitecliffs Boulders
Kohitere Trig Walk
Easy walks with kids Piriharakeke Walkway
Himatangi Beach to Foxton Beach
WAITARERE BEACH
Queen’s Park
Bruce Park Loop
Fishing
RANGATIRA GOLF CLUB
LEVIN GOLF CLUB
FEAST IN FOXTON
Lewis Farms Packhouse Shop
Cream horns
MOOMAA café and design store
Salt and Pepper Café
The Woolshed Café
WAITARERE BEACH 4 SQUARE
GrainHeaven
Daily bread
Thoroughbread
Mr Grumpy’s
Gourmet Hi-Way and Relish
Potter Brothers Chocolates
Waireka Honey
Noho Farm
Ohau wines
Celtic Organic Winery
Foxton Fizz
French & Sons
Turakina Antiques & Collectables
Little sparrow
Antiques
B.B. French Antiques
Wharf Street Gallery
Goldie’s Junk ‘n Disorderly
Flax Gift Gallery
Josef kieninger gallery
Mel’s Unique Boutique
Kickstand
Scully's
Hunterville Trading Bookshop
Rathmoy Lodge
Ridge Top Farm
RangitIkei Farmstay
Vinegar Hill Campground (PUtai Ngahere)
Himatangi Beach Holiday Park
Awastone Riverside Haven
NELSON
NELSON
NELSON events 2021
Maori first came
NELSON
RICHMOND
1 GO TO THE SEA
TAHUNANUI BEACH
CABLE BAY
THE MAITAI VALLEY
PIC'S PEANUT BUTTER WORLD
FOUNDERS HERITAGE PARK
NELSON PROVINCIAL MUSEUM
THE SATURDAY MARKET
KIRBY LANE
THE SUTER ART GALLERY
THE BROOK WAIMARAMA SANCTUARY
CABLE BAY ADVENTURE PARK
TOP OF TRAFALGAR STREET
CABLE BAY WALKWAY
BOULDER BANK
GRAMPIANS
MAITAI CAVES
BREWS ON A BIKE
GREAT TASTE TRAIL
CODGERS MOUNTAIN BIKE PARK
RAILWAY RESERVE
SHARLANDS
CYCLE
JENS HANSEN
BY CINDY HUTTON
PARKER GALLERY
FLAMEDAISY
RED GALLERY
FISHING
WAAHI TAAKARO GOLF CLUB
GOLF
URBAN
ARDEN BAR & KITCHEN
HOPGOOD'S AND CO.
BURGER CULTURE
KISMET
THE FREE HOUSE
CHIA SISTERS
WINERIES
SPRIG AND FERN
HOGARTH’S CRAFT CHOCOLATE
VIVA LA VACA
THE LITTLE BEEHIVE CO-OP
THE WHEELHOUSE INN
Wakefield quay house
The rutherford hotel
Retiro park lodge
AMBERLEY TO KAIKOURA
AMBERLEY TO KAIKOURA
GREETINGS COME IN MANY
KAIKOURA EVENTS 2021
TOWNS
THE KAIKOURA EARTHQUAKE
WAIPARA VALLEY
CHEVIOT
KAIKOURA
AMBERLEY
1 GET ON THE WATER
GO WHALE-WATCHING
KAYAK AROUND THE PENINSULA
CATCH A FRESH FEED
2 A BRIEF HISTORY LESSON
FYFFE HOUSE
KAIKOURA MUSEUM
3 kaikoura peninsula walkway
TAKE A SHORTCUT
CATHEDRAL CLIFFS AND GORE BAY
OHAU POINT
ROAD TRIP: DRIVE NORTH OF KAIKOURA
HINAU TRACK
WAIPARA VALLEY VINEYARD TRAIL
KAIKOURA TRAIL
HURUNUI HEARTLAND CYCLE TRAIL
DOLPHIN ENCOUNTER
SEAL SWIM KAIKOURA
ALBATROSS ENCOUNTER
SOUTH PACIFIC HELICOPTERS
THE POINT SHEEP SHEARING SHOW
IRON RIDGE QUARRY
WEKA PASS RAILWAY
FISHING
KAIKOURA GOLF COURSE
LAVENDYL LAVENDER FARM
JADE KIWI
RUBY SIX
BEEBOX
KAIKOURA CHEESE
NIN’S BIN
Go crazy for crayfish
For award-winning wines…
WAIPARA VALLEY WINERIES
EMPORIUM BREWING
HEXAGON MEAD
THE OLD KAIKOURA WINERY
SLAM CLUB
BEACH HOUSE CAFÉ
BERNIE’S DINER AND HARMON’S CLASSIC CAR MUSEUM
POPPY’S REAL HOMEMADE ICE CREAM
THE NOR’WESTER CAFE
BREW MOON
STRAWBERRY TREE
BEAN ME UP
HAPUKU LODGE AND TREE HOUSES
HAPUKU CARRIAGES
KAIKOURA BOUTIQUE HOTEL
Kumiko's guest house
KAIKOURA TOP 10 HOLIDAY PARK
Welcome to a landscape of vigorous geological drama and high-country serenity, where the air is alpine-fresh and the night sky glitters with stars
Welcome to a landscape of vigorous geological drama and high-country serenity, where the air is alpine-fresh and the night sky glitters with stars
THIS IS an overachieving
Aoraki/mackenzie events 2021
TEKAPO
TWIZEL
AORAKI/MT COOK VILLAGE
1 FIND THAT MOUNTAIN
1 FIND THAT MOUNTAIN
1 FIND THAT MOUNTAIN
1 FIND THAT MOUNTAIN
MOODY WEATHER
2 GET GLACIAL
2 GET GLACIAL
3 stargaze
3 stargaze
Tekapo Springs
Cycle
Mt Dobson Ski FIELD
Roundhill Ski Area
Church of the Good Shepherd
WALKs
THE CAIRNS GOLF CLUB
MACKENZIE GOLF CLUB
BEN OHAU GOLF CLUB
NZ Alpine Lavender
Sir Edmund Hillary Alpine Centre
King Salmon
High Country Salmon
Mt Cook Alpine Salmon
Burke’s Brewing Co.
The Greedy Cow
Our Dog Friday
Blue Lake Eatery
Astro Café
Dark Sky Diner
Kohan
Hydro Café
Panorama Restaurant, Hermitage Hotel
BOOKS GALORE
Three Creeks, Burke's Pass
Westlands Honey
SkyScape
Alpine Cubes
Dark Sky Villas
Lakestone Lodge, Lake Pukaki
The Hermitage Hotel
High Country Cabin
PHOTOGRAPHY CREDITS
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