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Whitianga Slideshow
Whitianga
Travel Blogs from Whitianga, New Zealand
Enter the Cathedral
These morning I jumped aboard the Kiwi bus for the start of my trip down through New Zealand to Christchurch. Luckily you can't miss the bus as it's a giant green one. It was quite full but I still managed to snag two seats to myself which allowed me to ...
Back to the Coromandel
We have been in New Zealand/Auckland now for over a month and both been working to get a bit extra cash! Its been a while since we last wrote so here goes.... I started my job in the office and Tom headed down to Waitomo. We both really enjoyed our ...
Coromandel region, NZ
... really relaxed and we spent a good two hours lazing around and were one of the last people to leave. We really liked Whitianga and right along the coast to Hot Water beach - a great place that we hope to visit again - we especially liked Cooks ...
The Coromandel Peninsula
Frequently as we travel through New Zealand we come across places or road names which are either similar to those in the UK or give a clear indication of the British roots of some of the early European settlers. On this occasion we entered the ...
Hot Water Beach... Ouch!
... really fun and deffinatly worth the visit. That night our meal was much better... Sirloin stakes corn on the cob mushrooms tomatos salad and new zealand lager! Our first taste of red meat in 3 months yum yum. We left on the morning of the 6th for the ...
Heading South
So we're heading south. We took a late hike in Russell out to a whaling station and a nice beach then decided to just get in the car and start driving east. It was about 9pm when we started driving and we just figured we'd get a cheap hotel ...
Ringing in the new year in style...or not
... . I can't get over how clear the water is here! After a couple hours, we ended up further along the peninsula at Whitianga to bring in the new year. Places were booked solid in the town and Tris found us a campsite a few kilometers from town to pitch a ...
Hot Water Beach
... people as well. We stopped at the small town of Tairua for a quick bite then back on the road. Camping at Hot Water Beach in Whitianga. Hot water meets cold water on the beach, in the sand. No need to dig deep, hot water is there underground. A little too ...
Auckland to Whitianga (Mercury Bay)
... guide tends to lie a bit (He reckons Blackpool is the most visited place in Europe....). The beach is stunning though! We got to Whitianga at about 5.30. We just dropped our bags and went to find the nearest pub - we always seem to be the 1st in the ...
eine weitere Woche in Coromandel
Schon wieder eine Weile her, dass ich einen Eintrag gemacht habe... Aber seitdem ist auch nicht viel passiert... bin hier immer noch in Coromandel und arbeite weiterhin auf der Kiwiplantage. Das Sommerwetter ist hier vorerst vorbei. Fuer die naechsten ...
Getting into Hot Water on the Coromandel Peninsula
... ! It was a great evening and the owners (English of course) were incredibly welcoming. Our second and third nights were spent in Whitianga, on the Western side of the peninsula in a much larger hostel just across from Mercury Bay. We can see the beach ...
die Zeit in Cooks Beach ist vorbei
Dies ist der letzte Blogeintrag aus Cooks Beach... Habe jetzt 5 Wochen hier auf dem Campingplatz verbracht und waehrenddessen auf der Kiwiplantage gearbeitet – jetzt bin ich erstmal wieder “frei” und kann Neuseeland entdecken. Hatte am ...
time flies in Wilderland
... countries, accents, or manners. Back to my new plans, Natsuko and Inbal - from Isreal, were talking yesterday about the new farms they were both thinking about going to near Auckland. They have both been here around 3 weeks. Then James mentioned ...
Beggining of the Kiwi Experience
Got the bus this morning. Theres 20 people on it all together and we've all bonded pretty well i think. We went to some nice places today. Stoped in a place called Cathedral cove wich has a pretty impresive sea arch on the beach that you can walk ...
Whitianga!!
... has 16 individual units, and we have been eating with her at night so that has helped out heaps. We have been for walks around Whitianga, and been on the ferry over to Cooks Beach, and now we are buying a campervan, which we will get in the next couple ...
Through the Coromandel to Wilderland
... I set off for a couple of days travelling and rest before I arrived at wilderland, the place I am at now. I went over to Whitianga, which is a town on the east coast of the Coromandel peninsula. I stayed at a campsite just outside the town at Hahei beach, ...
Der Deutsch Vanker!
... he scratched and sniffed the 'food' to determine what it was. Dirty German. And so it was, the start of day 2 of our New Zealand bus trip, a bus full of backpackers and one German covered in his own Bob Monk set off for the smelliest city in New ...
Whitianga in the Coromandel Peninsula
We drove to the Coromandel and walked up a fairly tall hill in Tairua. The views was gorgeous of ocean, beaches, clear sky and beautiful green trees. It reminded me of the wet coastal area in Australia. We briefly went to Hot Water ...
Coromandel - west coast
Finally: Whitinanga! I checked in at the amazing "on the beach backpackers" in Whitianga which was probably the best i have done so far. The backpacker is not only located directly at the beach i also met Kate who then "explored" Whitianga with me! On ...
HItching to Wilderland
Leaving Rotorua on the 5th, James and I headed out to the roadside in the morning to try our hand (or our thumbs) at hitch hiking. We were surprisingly successful and had quite an exciting day. It took us about 7 1/2 hours and 6 different drivers to get ...
Cave Swimming at Cathedral Cove
... 't! After all that excitment we headed up to our hostel for the night in Mercury Bay, which was actually really nice and seemed brand new! We all had a few drinks that night and shot some pool but when we ventured out from the hostel, the town was ...
getting out for a bit
... and sleeping most of the night in the hallway outside my door. We met some cool people at the backpackers from around New Zealand and the world and introduced them to some American card games. Good times were had by all. This morning we checked ...
Corromandel Pennisular
Corromandel Penninsular Friday 29th August We left Miranda for Corromandel, but only after a good soak in a 37c hot bath and a good shower. Clean and full we head off to see Carol and Peter in Mirangai. The best sunny weather yet since we ...
Whitianga
The last few days I spent in Taupo with Liam, Alexa, Gill and Natalie. Taupo is an awesome, chill, small town on the edge of Taupo lake and was an awesome place to relax and set up camp for awhile. The hostel we stayed at (Go Global) was ...
Whitianga
... so we had our backpacks on and our thumbs out!! and then a lady from Yorkshire stopped and took us the rest of the way to Whitianga, which was cool, and she told us some places to visit, so we checked in at Albert No 6 with Barbara who owns ...
The Coromandel Peninsula
... which makes for interesting driving, but it was very pretty. The whole route is lined with pohutakawa trees also called the New Zealand Christmas Tree for the fact that they produce huge red flowers in December. It must be an amazing sight along the ...
Sun, sand and almost-tsunamis...
Staying in the Cat's Pyjamas Backpackers in Whitianga (pronounced "Fitty-ang-a" - we've had a lot of 'whit' and 'whang's and keep getting all the names mixed up, not so convenient for map reading purposes...) for another night after a gorgeous day on the ...
good morning sunrise
... and tehy came so close! -after all of this hiking and running from the waves, we were pretty hungry! I had two new favorites: Lemon Treats (saltine like crackers with lemon creme inbetween- there's nothing I can describe as being similar to it- the ...