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Oamaru Slideshow
Top Hotels in Oamaru
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Kingsgate Brydone Oamaru
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Yha Oamaru
2 reviews
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Lake Aviemore Motor Hotel Oamaru
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Ranui Retreat Bed and Breakfast Oamaru
10 reviews -
The Mill House Oamaru
4 reviews
Oamaru
Travel Blogs from Oamaru, New Zealand
Giant's Marbles
This is a top pick! ... rain and the hordes of tourists took away some of their mystique. After coffee to warm us up, we wet north to Oamaru for lunch at the wonderful cheese factory by the sea, then turned west towards Mount Cook National Park. We visited the Maori ...
What a day!
This is a top pick! ... too. I found a place to call home for the night. I walked around town and had a beer by myself in an antique bar at Oamaru's "historic district". Bitter. The beer, not me. I was sour. Both (and only) pairs of pants that I own ripped today due to ...
Visiting the Penguins
This is a top pick! ... the $15 to see the blue ones (and you weren't allowed to take photographs/videos). We've certainly noticed that New Zealand is expensive (though probably not as pricey as Australia). Probably just trying to keep the economy afloat with tourist ...
Penguins ... sort of
This is a top pick! ... . Oamaru didn't really have anything there; it was a sort of neat little town with plenty of old buildings (our hostel was an old hotel). We took advantage of the lack of activity to see the new G.I. Joe movie, but that was pretty much it for Oamaru. ...
Oamaru and the Otago Pennisular
This is a top pick! ... conservation officer agreed with us, but said unless the government made it a reserve, signs were all they could do. Leaving Oamaru behind we drove south, hugging the windswept coast as far as Kakanui then turning inland to join Highway 1. At Hampden ...
March of the (wee Blue) Penguins
This is a top pick! ... little fisherman’s huts on the water. Then we took the detour off the ‘main road’ up towards Larnach Castle, New Zealand’s only castle. To try to take a sneaky photograph without paying but we couldn’t see a thing and had to ...
Oamaru
This is a top pick! ... gorgeous Victorian railway station, the Octagon (main, octagon shaped, square) and wandered a little more (including past Cadbury's World New Zealand) before heading on. Our next stop was the Moeraki Boulder, surreal rock spheres sat in the surf. We ...
Penguin Crossing
This is a top pick! ... bout of penguin viewing. This time it would be the blue penguin, the smallest penguin in the world, and it wasn’t free. Oamaru has a blue penguin colony set up in the grassy knolls just off a rocky shore. Cliffs jut up behind it, and little holes ...
the most stunning views ever imaginable
This is a top pick! ... don't you, well it's something to do with the pub (Vulcan) having quite a few ghost' running around it. There are several new paper articles dotted around the pub explaining it all but I can't remember what I read but what I can remember is that there is ...
Omaru and little Penguins
This is a top pick! After the whale watching, we headed south along the coast to Omaru. We were stopped by a police car as part of the Queen's birthday long weekend campaign to raise driver awareness about the importance of taking regular breaks. Anyway there was a free ...
Unhealthy Fears
This is a top pick! ... updating the Travelogue a little and a gloriously hot shower, we left in the early afternoon along the East coast and on to Oamaru. For some inexplicable reason, we were all in very high spirits when we arrived at the 'Top 10' after shopping for ...
Why did the Penguin Cross the Road?
This is a top pick! ... along the way such as the Pelennor Fields Battle from Lord of the Rings as we passed Twizel. The little YHA in Oamaru was a world away from that in Mt Cook with it being little more than a converted bungalow although a cosy one with a huge ...
Sunrise at Moeraki Boulders
This is a top pick! ... Boulders overnight but didn't get too much sleep as was first night in campervan. Today was the Queen's Birthday which is a public holiday in New Zealand. Don't know why we in the UK don't get a holiday for it, but nevermind! We got up really early, at ...
The Penguin Express
This is a top pick! ... half way between Christchurch and Dunedin. I stayed in the Red Kettle Youth Hostel which was very comfortable and friendly. Oamaru is the Penguin capital of New Zealand so I booked on the Penguin Express to go and visit them. Bruce and his bus picked ...
The next place that took our fancy to stop ...
This is a top pick! ... intrigued as to the outcome but I don't have to put that hat on for another few months yet! We were actually headed for Oamaru which is a pleasant older style town with some buildings that are actually older than 100 years!! (We've hardly seen any at ...
Ode to Agra
This is a top pick! ... ! He put up such a fuss until eventually he threw down his business card in frustration. It read: "Lonely Planet writer: New Zealand". Oops! The Lonely Planet can make or break a hostel. Hostel marketing leaflets and signage quote their words like the ...
Kaki Moeraki
This is a top pick! The thing about most NZ tourist attractions is that timing is essential, mostly because of the tides and weather. Apparently the best time to see the Moeraki boulders is at low tide. But as vagabonds we have a tough enough time just keeping track of the ...
Immer wieder Jenny...
... reinzuziehen - wer kommt voll beladen zur Rezeption gestampft? Jenny. Ich mach dann meine tolle Wwoofing-Erfahrung, lande in Oamaru. Wer kommt gestern voll beladen zur Rezeption gestampft? Ihr solltet es euch denken koennen. Wir haben daraufhin mal ...
Quirky Oamaru and the Moeraki Stones
... , we think owned by Chinese people (the staff were all from China), which was based in part of the old, now disused, Oamaru Hospital. The Eden Gardens Motel proved to be outstanding with a big room, super view from the window and spotless linen and ...
Pinguinä
... witters der Oschtküschte entlang, wo üs mit wunderschönä vertröimtä Schträndli beidruck, richtig Südä. Gli mau chömä mir z'Oamaru a womer de o grad eher unschpektakulär abr u gmüätlech Siuveschter fiirä. Was üs a däm Örli sehr passt; ...
If It's Thursday It Must Be Penguins
... the hostel for a number of months; and a Canadian couple just out of college who are travelling for a couple of months in New Zealand and Australia before returning to Toronto to search for jobs (they too came to Oamaru just to see the penguins). While ...
Penguin parade
... somewhat. This was lucky as Duncan didn't fancy the 45km trek to the next station! We finally got going and headed on to Oamaru, where once we got to the deserted town centre (all the towns so far are ghostly quiet) we hurriedly found the I-site tourist ...
More Penguins in Moeraki!
We were told that the Yellow Eyed Penguins (the rarest New Zealand penguin) could be found at a little place just passed the Moeraki boulders, at the turn off to a lighthouse. We stopped off to have a look at the boulders which were a nice sight (and ...
Oamaru: Penguin Paradise
... . Oamaru is a delightful little town, I absolutely loved it there. It has a Victorian Heritage precinct... quite old for New Zealand (European colonialism-wise) and a penguin colony of endangered Blue Penguins. When we got there we went to the iSite to ...
Mt Cook
... tarn but that is clearly not on. We drive up to the head of the Tasman valley to Mount Cook Village. Here there is New Zealand's best known hotel, The Hermitage, parked like a grey-blue battleship, dominating the settlement. A bit further on is a good ...
Headed South...Photo Shoot in Oamaru
We've headed south on Highway 1 and have arrived in Oamaru. We stayed at a Top-10 campground, nothing special, and paid $14 each to sleep in the van. This would be the first and last time we would lodge in this fashion. We have learned ...
Oamaru
... ! And Yes, I turned on the wipers instead of the blinkers many times! But once I got the hang of it I was driving like a Pro! New Zealand has round-abouts instead of traffic lights in a lot of the towns that are on the main highway. It is such a brilliant ...