Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Rotorua & the Bay of Plenty Highlights
Watching Rotorua's geysers blow their tops at
Te Puia
(
Click here
)
or
Whakare-
warewa 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
(
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)
after a beach afternoon
Climbing the pohutukawa-studded flanks of
Mauao
(Mt Maunganui;
Click here
)
Getting There & Around
to Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch, plus Rotorua to Sydney (every Tuesday and
Saturday) and Whakatane to Auckland.
Tauranga, Rotorua and Whakatane with most other main cities in NZ.
Bay Hopper
(
0800 422 928;
www.baybus.co.nz
)
bus services run between Tauranga, Whakatane and
Opotiki.
Twin City Express
(
0800 422 928;
www.baybus.co.nz
)
buses link Tauranga and
Rotorua.
ESSENTIAL ROTORUA & THE BAY OF PLENTY
Eat
A buttery corn cob in Rotorua, cooked in a thermal hangiat Whakarewarewa
Thermal Village (
Click here
)
Drink
Croucher Brewing Co's pale ale, brewed in Rotorua
Read
How to Watch a Bird,an exposition on the joys of avian observation, written
by Mt Maunganui schoolboy Steve Braunias
Listen to
Kora,the eponymous rootsy album from Whakatane's soulful sons
