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Enjoying the Harbour City
After enjoying breakfast at our hotel restaurant we ventured out early to begin making most of our first day in Wellington. Our first stop was the national museum, Te Papa, which was a mere 500 metres away: I was impressed to see that the building had acquired several more levels since my last visit. There were artefacts and exhibits that covered …
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Think Wellington Of Me
... many walking trails. Ten minutes along the curving hillside streets took us to the gates of Zealandia, also known as The Karori Wildlife Sanctuary. After buying our tickets we entered a secured zone where we had to check our bag for unwanted pests such ...
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Obligatory, boring update!
... . I'm considering Raglan for a few days, it is a huge surfing spot, so maybe I'll take some lessons. I checked out the Karori Wildlife Sanctuary on the weekend, it was a nice walk but to be honest we didn't really see all that much wildlife. We saw a ...
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All's Well in Wellington
On my way into Wellington yesterday, I stopped at Karori Wildlife Sanctuary on the outskirts of town. It's an enchanting place -- a forested valley that holds a drinking water reservoir. In 1999, a land trust fenced off the whole area with a ...
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Last stop on the North Island
... exploring. For the next three days, I wandered Wellington, taking in the Botanical Gardens, the National Dragon Boat Festival, Karori Wildlife Sanctuary, open-air markets, and a great run across the city up to the Mount Victoria look-out. I would have ...
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Enjoying the Harbour City
... taking some time out to replenish our fluid levels it was on to our last planned stop for the day, Zealandia (Karori Wildlife Sanctuary): a sanctuary aiming to provide a safe haven for over thirty species of native birds and reptiles with the ultimate ...
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North Island - Wellington
... a Sky movie with the family. Thursday 22 Feb A late start - went back into the city centre to visit the Karori Wildlife Sanctuary, a predator-free former reservoir, ringed by an electric fence to keep out other wildlife. Had a short guided tour and ...
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Kiwi time!
... have time to explore, and a great museum, Te Papa. And there's Zealandia. Zealandia is the touristic name of the Karori Wildlife Sanctuary, a big area over 200 hectares of nature, on the very edge of Wellington. Most interestingly it's surrounded by a ...
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Zealandia!
... too. Although we weren't volunteering today now, we took an educational trip to Zealandia at the Karori Wildlife Sanctuary. It had actually just opened on March 31st and had some really great interactive displays. There was a moving ...
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Karori Wildlife Sanctuary
Spurred on by several glowing recommendations, we made our way out to Karori Wildlife Sanctuary today. A long and impressive fence has been built around a large valley on the south side of Karori, a suburban area west of central Wellington. ...
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Karori Wildlife Sanctuary
Today we visited the Karori Wildlife Sanctuary just outside Wellington. It's a big reserve with a huge fence around it to prevent predators getting in. The idea is to get native birds breeding there. The fence mesh is so small it even prevent baby mice ...
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