Paeroa
Travel Blogs from Paeroa, New Zealand
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Holes, Hobbits, Hongis, Hangis and Hakas
After bidding AJ farewell in Auckland (she had to go home and 'close some deals' or whatever it is that people with jobs do) whilst the remaining Stray cats rejoined the bus to go south to Raglan. As all you surfer dudes know, Raglan is a surfing mecca, ...
Getting cultural
A chance this evening to see the other side of NZ culture, the non European version.... We were staying with a half-Maori, half-English guy, who has decided one of his missions in life is to promote better integration and understanding between Europeans ...
Mine, All Mine! My precious....
... No snakes, No spiders. It very much seems that if you want wildlife go to Australia. If you want endless landscapes, go to New Zealand. Eventually we returned to our camp and lunched. Knackered. A 2 hour drive brought us to our new site at Matamata, ...
Life down on the farm!
... round duty free and catching up with Mike in the waiting lounge. The flight was only 3 hours and as it's daylight saving in New Zealand, we arrived Nz time at about 2pm. We ploughed our way through customs for another stamp to the passport and Vic was ...
Lazy days on the coast
Mt Manganui was a nice coastal town, the weather was very chnageable but we still went for a short walk up the mountain (which is more of a hill) the views were pretty good and later that day we realxed in the hot saltwater pools beside the mountain. I'm ...
Kia Ora the Lauren and Daisy the camper-van
... big food shop and by this time it was getting late so we grabbed something to eat. We then got back on the road to Paeroa where we stayed the night at a campsite. We were pleasantly surprised the following morning when we got up and opened the curtains ...
Big Lemonade
... of fizzy pop. L&P, aka Lemon & Paeroa, is exclusive to NZ, and marketed under the paradoxical slogan 'World Famous in New Zealand since ages ago'. The town is crazy about it; there's a huge L&P bottle monument in the park, L&P banners ...
A sad day
Today was a sad day. We awoke to the news that there had been a whale stranding the night before last. We decided to head up to Opoutere Beach to see if they needed volunteers to help try and save some of the 74 pilot whales which had beached themselves. ...
Leaving Mt. Manganui
Today we packed up at the Batch and prepared to return to Auckland. Another final trip to the beach before our departure though! Our return route was a more scenic route up the coast and thru a gorge. The scenery was absolutely ...
Mikes kleine Farm
... gefunden. Mike war Besitzer einer Motorrad-Werkstatt und handelte nebenbei mit Campervans. Da er auch deutsch war, ludt er uns einfach nach Paeroa ein und aus dem gleichen Grund vertrauten wir ihm mal. Am Abend kamen wir bei ihm und seiner Familie an und ...
Big Change, Small Towns
... see here and the only thing it is known for is its L&P. Having said that, we didn't have any luck finding any hostels in Paeroa. Instead, we were able to find a place about six km outside of town called the Golden Owl. The hostel is located in a place ...
Almost there...
Ok, decided to change today's destination from Thames to the famous sleepy town of Paeroa, so named after the famous local drink (which i'll sample later..).. though the name of the accommodation got me worried, casa mexicana in NZ - should be ...
XTERRA Off Road Run Waihi
Did the 8km, wasn't ready for the 13... need to attempt some shorter off road stuff first. Was FANTASTIC! great place to re-visit. Me and sis did the 8km, Rhian the 13km. Loved it- actually ran (and decent pace jog'd maybe) approx. 7 kms too! ...
Paeroa - > Peninsula Coromandel - > Karekare
Na polwyspie mamy do zobaczenia 2 miejsca: Hot water beach, oraz Cathedral Cove. W pierwszej kolejnosci docieramy jednak do Opito. Calkiem ladne i zaciszne miejsce musze przyznac. Wczesniej pokonujemy skrot z Tapu do Coroglen i pomimo tego, ze droga ...
Jun 22, 2011
moving on
hi just waiting for my intercity coach to take me out of the city.im afraid im not much of a city gal like to be out in the open countryside seeing the sights. Going to be at a hostel near the karangahake gorge in the coromandel region for a ...
Going Local
It's been a leisurely three days in this cute little hostel, with the walking tracks of the spectacular Karangahape Gorge conveniently just over the road - although the road is State Highway 2 and there are some monster logging trucks on it. The tracks ...
Brueckentag
Heute habe ich viel Zeit weil ich mich entschlossen habe morgen den Bus nach Wellington zu nehmen, da ich mehr von der Suedinsel machen will. Und der faehrt ab Pearoa, also stehe ich langsam auf und schau noch mal die Gegend an, bevor ich losfahre. Ich ...
North Island Day 3
Before we left Whangamata Alec took us surfing in order to top up the salt water levels in our sinuses because clearly we hadn't experienced a satisfactory level of Almost Drowning the day before. We spent a good hour and a half getting thrown about ...
Karangahake Gorge
On our why up to Matarangi from Te Puke with Net and Dennis. It is in the Coromandel Paninsula, we stoped at this amazing old gold mining gourge in Karangahake. We were told it used to be a really scetchy hike becuse there was no hand rails and ...
The Original L&P (Lemon and Paeroa)
... us around the little town that is home to L&P soda. Apparently, this lemony mineral spring water was discovered in Paeroa and that's what they used to use to make the soda. I got to try some for the very first time today and it ...
Hot Water Beach
Igar morse lamnade vi ett regningt Auckland och akte var forsta tur med kiwi bussen till ett stalle som heter Hot water Beach. Restiden dit var 5 timmar, men det ar sa mycket sevardigheter har pa Nya zeeland sa det kandes inte som det tog sa lang tid ...
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