Paihia Villas - Reviews and Rates

We spent the day hung over sitting in a tiny park, or rather a piece of grass by the river in Whangarei after checking out by 10 and waiting til 4.30 for a bus to Paihia.We bumped into Hannah who was feeling much better than us and was getting a later bus to Paihia too. We slept all the way there, luckily waking up just before we had to get off....

We fellow highway 1 Kawakawa and then proceed on highway 11 to Paihia. We arrived to the town in 20:00 and go to the first place we know is going to host us, Omri's place. There we spend the night and met Oren, he will join us on the way north and through all the north island. לישרא 00;ים ש...

This was Crystal's trip that LVC set up for the students. This is what she said in an email to me about the trip: "The hole in the rock cruise this past weekend was awesome!!! We were freaking out when the dolphins came, it was soooo cool...I also have a 5 min video of them that is incredible that you'll have to check out NEXT WEEK!!!! The pictu...

1/2 a day in the hustle and bustle of Auckland is long enough. It's just another big (ish) city. But I'm off to Paihia in the Bay of Islands. We arrive around lunchtime and immediately book onto a 2 hour jetboat tour, the Excitor. A big jetboat, with 2 800 bhp Cat diesel engines, 38000 litres of engine in total. It has a top speed of about 50 kn...

The group we were taking on this trip was 17 youth. They are part of some Christian organization and are doing adventures, this trip being one of them. I have not done much sea kayaking, but it proved to be easy enough and the learning curve is quick. Urapukapuka Island is a small island in the bay and just a short paddle accross the open cean c...

...but someone has to live it! In the last 2 days I have: - seen the sunrise over a sandy beach, yachts and sparkling waters - seen dolphins put on a SeaWorld worthy performance in the wild - stood at the very North tip of New Zealand and stared off into the nothingness that is the surrounding ocean (until you hit South America) - boogie boarded...