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Travel Blogs from Pohara, Takaka, New Zealand
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The Shambhala
This is a top pick! ... snake back down in a low gear, all the way down the other side and into the village itself. The map's ridiculously deceptive here. Takaka could only be a fingernail away from Motueka and Nelson yet it soaks up a good hour and half out of your day. The ...
Pohara
... in when we're on the left hand side of the hills as I'm nearest a huge drop, it's heart in mouth stuff sometimes! We stayed at Pohara, in another Top 10 campsite. Just over the road is a mini golf course! So we dashed over for a game before it closed, I ...
Abel Tasman
... 18 Feb A brighter start and an improving forecast. NZ forecasters are almost always wrong by the way. Opted to stay a second night in Pohara. Drove east to Totaranui, at the top end of the Abel Tsman walk - just to see what it was like!? Steph decided ...
Abel Tasman National Park
... in den folgenden Tagen einmal mehr zeigte... glücklicherweise aber mal auf die positive Seite! Wir fuhren mit dem Auto nach Pohara, einem Mini-Ferienort in einer Bucht mit schönem Strand, wo wir in einem süssen, kleinen Hüttchen übernachteten ...
Pohara National Park
The first thing I saw when we arrived in NZ was a poster in the baggage claims area of Pohara beach, it looked so stunning and I'm glad that we made a detour to be there. We did a few walks, Harwoods hole (a huge drop into an extensive caving ...
Pohara, Golden Bay
... a scenic detour through more mountain and fjord scenery with me driving and looking at the views and Emma watching the road. Driving in New Zealand is like driving in rural UK not too much traffic apart from the odd speedy local and lots of camper vans. ...
Pohara
... , must be careful, could get used to this. No, maybe not. Today was 'ANZAC' day, which was originally to remember the New Zealand and Australian soldiers who died at Gallipoli. I think it has now extended to cover the soldiers of all wars but I am not ...
Pleasantly Pohara
... up the coastal road to the ports for a look around, the road even went though a cave just before the ports, very exciting. Pohara is supposed to have quite an amazing safe beach, unfortunately when we were there it was raining (like quite a few ...
Jan 11, 2011
In de Golden Bay
... ook weer enkele pelsrobben, aalscholvers en een kleine kolonie sternen. We hebben dag drie voorzien om uit te rusten, we rijden mee met Filip tot in Takaka om enkele winkeltjes te bekijken. We brengen ook een bezoekje aan de lokale kunstenaar, Chris ...
Golden Bay – Pohara Beach
... to Blenheim, across west to Nelson, up the coast to Motueka, across the bottom of the Abel Tasman National Park, north to Takaka, and finally the Pohara Beach Holiday Park on Golden Bay. We are no further north than the south of the North Island. It feels ...
Wine and windy roads
... Will and Kirsty who had the next campervan berth to us at the holiday park in Wellington. They were great fun and were travelling around New Zealand for three months. Got to bed about 10.30pm as we had to be up early to catch the ferry. Got to ferry ...
A long, long day!
... and gave Roy enough of a break to finish off this leg. After a quick stop for dinner supplies in Takaka, we headed to the motel in Pohara (pop 350). The location is lovely and the room is clean but it is lacking in kitchen facilities. The kitchen ...
Day 2 Pohara
... the hike we had to cross the river on a suspension bridge (OK nobody told me about THAT!) Final destination today we back into Takaka to check out the shops. There was some nice artwork but nothing small enough to fit in one’s suitcase and most of ...
Pohara
A world away from our previous nights campsite was Pohara beach campsite, yes, it was right on the beach and absolutely stunning. From our site we had direct beach acess so after we'd settled in i went for jog/walk on the beach and it was gorgeous...the ...
Farewell Spit
... echt stabiliteit, andere bomen worden nooit zo oud en daardoor komt het na een tijd dat alleen de rata overblijft... De volgende stop is Takaka het grootste 'stadje' hier over den berg (den berg met Nelson, grote stad en er is maar ene weg die over den ...
First few days on South Island
... was aching more and more so we decided it was time for a rest. We came across a lovely beachfront motel in a little place called Pohara and checked in for a night. One night turned into 3 nights and It was just the tonic we needed. Space to move around, ...
Abel Tasman
... stond een wandeling op het programma, de track die gepland was is de laatste dag van de Abel Tasman tramp. Hiervoor neem ik de 'bus' in Pohara, dit is een soort belbus: je belt de dag ervoor om te zeggen dat je meegaat en je ziet dan dat je om 9u30 daar ...
Golden times ahead
... Buller Gorge we made our wiggly way up and over yet more mountains and down down down to the livley little town of Takaka and in to Pohara in Golden Bay, on the north western side of Abel Tasman National Park – a lovely beachside site and a chance ...
Beaches & Bonfires
Woke up to such a sunny day – breakfast in the sun by the beach bliss! Put yet more laundry on then walked along the beach – virtually deserted. Then after our leisurely walk decided to run along it having not done a run on a beach before and ...
Abel Tasman Walk
Fantastic day today. The sun shone and we walked and walked. We drove over to Wainui Bay which is the start of the Abel Tasman Coastal Track – a four to five day tramp around the coastal section of the Abel Tasman National Park, involving two tidal ...
Pohara
... the mountain. Our guide, Kerry, was great, showing us some brilliant marble formations. After the tour we carried on to Pohara, on the beach just outside Takaka, pausing at Harwood's Point, then at a salmon farm, where we each caught a fish for ...
Niet veel nieuws
... dagen is er niet veel gebeurd, gisteren naar Nelsen gereden, auto binnengebracht en opgepikt door Filip. Daarna naar hun B&B in Pohara gereden, lekker gaan eten met hun en de andere gasten in Takaka. Vandaag was het dan in heel Nieuw Zeeland ...
Wharakiki Beach, Cape Farewell & Farewell Spit
Woke up at five in the morning to the drumming sound – or was it the sporadic plonk, as we were parked under a tree. Anyway, it was raining hard and continued to do so until ten o'clock, at which time Roland was happily reading but Lin says we must ...
Golden Bay
Long drive here today but a good day for it as pouring down when we got up this morning. The drive was interesting as the scenery changed one we were a way from the Glaicers and we travelled up and down hills and around mountains. Once we got ...
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