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Taihape
Travel Blogs from Taihape, New Zealand
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"you will see us waving from such great heights"
This is a top pick! ... last left off in Taupo, where we were ready to head off to the River Valley Lodge. Monday morning we boarded the bus to Taihape (Tie-happy), with our English friend, Rachel #2. After trying to find a quick remedy for some bus-induced nausea (Jodie and I ...
Waitomo - Wait a mo, theres nothing here!
This is a top pick! G'day everyone. Well after the Mauri evening the night before and before we left Rotorua, we made a quick stop off to have a tour around more Mauri Culture, consisting of wooden sculpture making, and more about their lives in general. We did actually get ...
Orgy in River Valley
This is a top pick! Hi all, From Taupo we arrived at River Valley Lodge which is in a very green and very very remote area of Taihape. Not sure why Kiwi Experience sent us here as there is absolutely nothing here except sheep and the activities that the Lodge offer. And ...
River Valley
This place is a lodge in the middle of nowhere (literally - the nearest town is about 40 minutes away) next to a river. Did whitewater rafting on the river which was great fun but very very cold, managed to not fall in although came very close a few ...
River Valley Lodge!
Hello! Spent a week here working as a house keeper! lots of bed making, dusting hoovering, scrubbing and mopping! In return i got 3 amazing meals a day, free accomodation, internet, laundry, sauna, jaquzzi, discounted bar tab, ...
Gravity Canyon - Flying Fox
After spotting a sign at the side of the road we veered off and headed for the'Gravity Canyon' Lisa and i did the Flying fox. Good fun. Massive climb up. Harrnessed up connected to a zip line. We hurtled at 160mph down in to the canyon and along for ...
An ace funky campsite at Taihape
... campsite and the whole place was ace, just outside the main town, which was a lovely little town. On the way to Taihape we drove through a cool town called Feilding, another place we liked on our way. We stopped at some sightseeing places, and we ...
River Valley Slaves
And so a couple of bus trips later we arrived first in North Island via the capital Wellington and then a few days later in the River Valley Adventure Lodge. Gemma and Jenna had heard on the grapevine about the possiblity of 'slaving' at the Lodge ...
River Valley
For one night we stayed in a beautiful lodge, situated in the middle of nowhere, aptly called river valley. There was a lovely open fire in the middle of the bar/lounge which was very much welcome. During the day we walked along the river, exploring the ...
Traveling South!
Packed the bikes and our kit and started South. Beautiful! After a dinner of fish & chips we are visiting and enjoying the evening. Tomorrow we visit a British Bike Parts shop in Wellington, NZ, then load the truck & trailer on ...
Dec 11, 2011
Gravity canyon.
180 metre zip line fall at 160 kmph. 1 km travelled. We have the DVD as proof cause we don't have any photos of us doing it as we were to busy flying through the air. One of the best activities we've done here for the money you pay and it lasts pretty ...
River valley
We are in River Valley today. Its basically an activity lodge in teh middle of no where. Is pretty cool. Big open fire and things and had a big stew meal which was really really nice. Good atmosphere ...
Rest and Relaxation in River Valley
After our exciting days in Taupo we headed to River Valley, a place that isn't really on the map and only Kiwi Experience stop there. It was secluded and absolutely gorgeous. Our chalets were deep in the valley and we were surrounded by lush green forest ...
The Farm with the Little People
... , Morag and freddie, it was off to the farm. The journey offerend some pretty nice scenery, the kind of thing that attracted me to New Zealand in the forst place. Once at the farm all i could think was wow! Well, its all green hills and sheep from here! ...
Washed Out
River Valley Lodge is an outdoor pursuits set up that the Kiwi Experience uses. Unfortunately, the great NZ storm, which we've been skilfully avoiding so far, finally beat us to where we were going. We left State Highway 1 and took a small winding ...
Remote River Valley
Leaving Taupo we couldn't see Tongario National Park at all. And that was just where we were driving through today. We tried to drive above the clouds but in the end just had a big group photo with a white background, still pretty cool! Then it was on ...
On the road to Taihape
... to Taihape. Just beautiful country. Lots and lots and lots of green rolling hills dotted with rocks. Oh wait, those were sheep. Yep, New Zealand the land of sheep lives up to its name. On the first half of the drive I was certain they were wrong as ...
Lord of the rings, flying kiwi eddition
We came, we conquered and found mount dome! On sunday 25th February 2007, at 7:30 in the morning we set out to hike New Zealand's most famous day hike known as Tongariro crossing. It is 17 kms and the average time which takes to do the crossing ...
A carrot, a tank & a boot
Distance 60.16km (about 4km unloaded), Max 58.90km/hr, Avs 16.46km/hr Today we cycled from a town with giant metal carrot to the gum boot capital of the world, complete with giant metal gum boot, stopping for lunch at a little town and taking ...
Far from civilization
I'm sitting in a lodge 30km away from any civilization on the other side of the world. The location is River Valley, New Zealand. The lodge has a spacious open main room where large groups of backpackers gather around tables playing drinking games. ...
Rivers, Falls and Volcanoes
We headed south to Turangi for a brief lunch stop then onto Tongariro national park where we took a walk to Taranaki Falls. We kept forgetting the name of the falls whilst walking around and were referring to them as Teryaki Falls the whole time. The ...
Taihape - Gum boots
Taihape - the well renowned Gumboot (Welly-boot) throwing capital of New Zealand - possibly the world. We stayed at the only campsite in town which we shared with sheep and a few other campers (including one in a Wicked Camper - see pic). Weather ...
weekend away in River Valley
Hey babies!! I'm sitting in the mid-day heat with my cousin in New Zealand north island. I've just been white water rafting down 13km of up to grade 5 rapids which was well cool! We're 2 hours north of Palmy at a river valley lodge with some awesome ...
River Valley. Rafting!
River Vallley viste sig vitterlig at vaere River Valley - en river og en valley. Og ja, lige vores Lodge. Ellers intet andet. Det laa ude i ingenting. Stedet var omgivet af bjerge, traeer, bakker, faar og geder. Idyl. Det laa lige ned til floden. ...
River Valley
Left taupo because of bad weather and didnt get to do the skydive or the long walk. River valley was in the middle of no where but the scenery was good. Had first game of golf on grass at a pitch and putt in this massive valley. 4 hour drive to ...
Hüttengaudi
River Valley, 01. Mai 2011 Mit immer noch schmerzenden Waden fährt der grüne Partybus weiter in Richtung River Valley, was auf unserem Reiseprogramm einen besonderen Platz zwecks „besonderer Unterkunft“ einnimmt. Das bedeutet, wir ...
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