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Sweet tooth, saunas and sunbathing!
Mount Maunganui wasn't originally on our destination hit list but after speaking to my dad e advised us to go, plus at the beginning of March the Magic timetable changed and we had two choices of places to stay for a few nights. So we chose Mount Maunganui. It's a north east seaside town with a man made reef to entice the surfers and is buzzing …
One last fling with my love, Tauranga
My farewell weekend to my North Island New Zealand home was a bit of a non-event; I spent all day Saturday watching movies and TV with the long-termers as it was a thoroughly miserable day and after journal writing I didn't have much time to do anything anyway. The next day I headed, in the rain again, to the town to say goodbye to Mauao (no sunset …
Travelling to Mount Maunganui......
I had a great nights sleep, to start with I could hear snoring through the walls, did remind me of a certain person :-) haha.
Travelling to Mount Maunganui we went through Taupo, Rotorua and Tauranga, to drop off people (I'll stop in these please on the way back down to Wellington).
We visited Wai-O-Tapu (thermal wonderland) to …
The Mount
Mount Maunganui is a lovely holiday destination with lovely beaches and nice little cafes and shops. It also has fantastic little Islands and, of course, The Mount! I also visited Haku Falls on the way, which is a fantastic waterfall :-)
Exercise
This is a top pick! From Napier today our destination was Mount Maunganui, a little suburb of the bigger city of Tauranga.
On the way we visited Taupo for some people to do some skydiving, and then back through Rotorua for a lunch stop. Oh the sweet sweet smells of Rotorua, how I missed them.
Leaving Rotorua behind we made it to Mount Maunganui in …
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