Bushland Park Lodge & Nickel Strausse
Travel Blogs from Whangamata
Farm Stay
We drove all the way to Wairoa and stayed at Bushdale Farm Backpacker it was pretty sweet we were the only people staying there which was basically a house on a farm. We drove another hour to Te Urewera National Park and did a short hike to a look out point before it got dark. We trired to find the beach whcih was inapropriatley named Sandy Bay - …
Hot water beach
... by a huge cathedral sized cave which you can walk through or a walk along the coast to the same point. Now this is the part where our luxury trip through Asia officially finishes. There would be no more balconies on luxury boats, staying in private en suite rooms, no more waking up at 2pm having had a beer or two too many, no more flying to our next destination or spending all day on a beach laughing at stupid people who can't recognise a rain cloud while sipping a ...
Etape 4 : Hot Water Beach - Whangamata
... petites frayeurs donc... Mais sans soucis!
Et puis, nous avons retrouvé la côte que nous longeons de loin et de haut, mais qui nous offre toujours de très jolis paysages, le tout sous le soleil!
De bonnes montées, donc, mais il ne nous reste plus ensuite qu'à nous laisser descendre tranquilou jusqu'à la ville qui nous accueillera pour la nuit.
Nous y arrivons vers 18h et arrivons à arracher la dernière chambre des ...
Kayaking & Hot Springs
... beach. Here you dig a hole which fills up with hot water from the volcanic or thermo activity under the sand. You have to be really careful as the holes/pools can be really hot & you can scald yourself. We wiggled until we found a hot area if sand & then Joe started digging. The water was boiling so we tried to cool it down by making a channel to the next cooler pool. This kind of worked but then another group abandoned a larger pool which was better as there were 8 of us. ...
Ha ha Hahei That's Hot
... honestly that is really all there is to do in Thames!
We almost made it to Hahei without another stop but trouble took us to a vineyard, one I’d been to before in fact, that specialises in local fruit liqueurs and wines. Some of them are lovely, but can anyone truly tell me that they enjoy the taste of C******nay – because it is rank! As is Feijoa in its fruit form… if you don’t know what a feijoa is please Google it… it is ...
Amenities
- Restaurant
- Free parking