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Day 5 - Rotorua After the luge and having a bite to eat at Burger Fuel in town, we then headed off to Paradise Valley Wildlife park, mainly to see the young lion cubs. Its not everyday when one can pat a lion club, and the bonus was this was all included ... Read more >
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Day 5 - Wednesday 03rd November, 2011 Today was the day to explore the Rotorua area. I was here 20 years ago, remember the strong smell of suphur throughout this town and certainly did not want to stick around for too long. To our surprise however, ... Read more >
NEW ZEALAND | Monday, 9 Apr 2012 | Photo Gallery
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Day 4 - Wednesday 2nd November, 2011 After exploring the Turangi area we headed back to the van for a small rest and for preparation to be picked up at 5pm at the Holiday Park by the free bus service provided by Wairakei Terraces. Wairakei Terraces ... Read more >
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Wednesday 2nd November, 2011 The weather did its worst overnight and even though the clouds lingered, the day remained dry. Today we headed over to Turangi to visit the Tongariro National Trout Centre. Situated beside the famous Tongariro River , ... Read more >
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Tuesday 1st November, 2011 It was an overcast cold day with plenty of rain looming, but this didnt put us off from exploring the outdoors in this rugged region. Nope, today we were joining Malcolm from Tongariro Quad bikes to spend half of the day ... Read more >
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Day 2 - Monday 31st October, 2011 15 minutes drive south from Otorohanga is Waitomo Village. We stocked up on food at the Countdown (Woolworths) store at Otorohanga before meeting our 10am tour at Waitomo. There are approx 400 cave in the Waitomo region, ... Read more >
Tags: glow worms, moa, spellbounds tours, tongariro, tongariro holiday park, tongariro national park, waitomo
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9 hours into landing onto NZ soil, 2.5 hours after our hot-seat rally car ride ride with Mark Tapper, and almost 300kms travelled in our first day, we stop off to our first night's rest at Otorohanga Camp Kiwi. Camp Kiwi which is a small open plan park ... Read more >
Tags: camp kiwi, kea, kiwi house, otorohanga, weka
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We had a 90km drive to Maramarua Forest to meet Dale Perry and his team at Rally Drive NZ. Every 6 weeks, Rally Drive NZ conducts a weekend rally driving school for people to experience the thrills of rallying in a hands on environment. The first day ... Read more >
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Intro: This blog summarises our NZ holiday. We seem to only do an overseas trip once every 3 years, and what with our son now 15yo, I had wondered if this may be the last time he would want to travel overseas with us. Considering this, I wanted ... Read more >
Tags: apollo camper, apollo motorhomes, auckland, nz
