Victoria Love-Williams asked:
Historic sights and monuments. I always hear about Zorbing and “extreme sports”, but what are some nice places of historic interest?
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As NZ is a fairly new country (only about 200yrs old) there aren’t huge amounts of historical sites. Waitangi has a historical site, it is where maori chiefs signed a treaty with the queen and is now a celebrated holiday in NZ. Napier on the North Islands east coast suffered a huge earthquake in the 1920s so the town was rebuilt in Art Deco style i love it! NZ has a lot of natural wonders to make up for the lack of historical ones, Check out rotorua and the geysers (you’ll get used to the smell), Milford sound, Franz Josef Glacier and the west coast of the south island is amazing.
Kowhitirangi on the West Coast where Stan Graham went on the rampage in 1941. There’s a Stan Graham section in Hokitika museum, about 20 km away. For a long time the exhibits were in a back room. It wasn’t until the 1980s that they put them on display.
The historic town of Akaroa, which was originally established by the French, is about 1 1/2 hours from Christchurch and is a lovely little town and very interesting to visit. There’s a fair amount of history in the town – a small museum, a French cemetery, a big war memorial and a lot of lovely buildings. Christchurch itself is sometimes called “the most English city outside England”; it has a big Anglican cathedral at the centre of the city, the Arts Centre which was the university but is now a cultural precinct, and the museum, plus the gondola which is on the Port Hills and has a lot of information about the formation of Banks Peninsula.
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Near Dunedin you will find the Royal Albatross colony, the southern most colony in the world where you don’t have to be a mountain goat and tramper to see them.
On the way visit the most southern Castle in the world, or take a Taieri Train trip on a line over a century old with some breath taking scenery where on one side you can feel as if you can touch the rock face and out the other side feel as if a sudden lurch will send you falling into the
gorge below.
katherine mansfields house=wellington
lanarch castle=dunedin
the pink and white terraces (RIP)
baldwin st (steepest st in the world)=dunedin
one tree hill (minus the tree)
christchurch cathedral
dunedin railway station-tairei gorge