Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Rotorua & the Bay of Plenty Highlights
Watching Rotorua's geysers blow their tops at
Te Puia
(
Click here
)
or
Whakarewarewa Thermal Village
(
Click here
)
Ogling kaleidoscopic colours and bubbling mud pools at
Wai-O-Tapu Thermal Wonderland
(
Click here
)
Mountain biking in the
Redwoods Whakarewarewa Forest
(
Click here
)
Carving up the surf over NZ's first artificial reef at
Mt Maunganui
(
Click here
)
Flying or boating out to NZ's only active marine volcano,
Whakaari
(
Click here
)
Kicking back for a few days in
Whakatane
(
Click here
) - NZ's most underrated seaside town?
Swimming with dolphins at
Tauranga
(
Click here
)
Drinking in
Mt Maunganui
(
Click here
) after a beach afternoon
Climbing the pohutukawa-studded flanks of
Mauao
(Mt Maunganui;
Click here
)
Getting There & Around
Air New Zealand
(
www.airnewzealand.co.nz
)
has direct flights from Tauranga and Rotorua to Auck-
land, Wellington and Christchurch, plus Rotorua to Sydney (every Tuesday and Saturday)
and Whakatane to Auckland.
torua and Whakatane with most other main cities in NZ.
Bay Hopper
( 0800 422 928;
(
0800 422 928;
www.baybus.co.nz
)
buses link Tauranga and Rotorua.
