Manawatu-Wanganui Tourist Attractions: 15 Top Places to Visit
Planning to visit Manawatu-Wanganui? Check out our Manawatu-Wanganui Travel Guide video and see top most Tourist Attractions in Manawatu-Wanganui.
Top Places to visit in Manawatu-Wanganui (New Zealand):
Tongariro Alpine Crossing, The Timber Trail, Ohakune Old Coach Road, Virginia Lake, Esplanade Scenic Railway, Bason Botanic Gardens, Kowhai Park, Victoria Esplanade Gardens, National Army Museum, Taranaki Falls, Quartz Museum, Whanganui River, Te Manawa, Durie Hill Elevator, New Zealand Rugby Museum
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Wanganui Tourist Attractions: 14 Top Places to Visit
Planning to visit Wanganui? Check out our Wanganui Travel Guide video and see top most Tourist Attractions in Wanganui.
Top Places to visit in Wanganui (New Zealand):
Virginia Lake, Bason Botanic Gardens, Kowhai Park, Quartz Museum, Whanganui River, Durie Hill Elevator, Wanganui Winter Garden, Durie Hill Memorial Tower, Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui National Park, Whanganui Regional Museum, Kai Iwi Beach, Castlecliff Beach, St Mary's Catholic Church
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Palmerston North City and Manawatu Regional Video
Palmerston North City and Manawatu is a great place to work, live, study, meet, invest and visit.
A Winters Day in Wanganui New Zealand
This was a cool quiet winters day wandering around the small New Zealand town of Wanganui. A wonderful friendly place, full of crafts and cafes, definitely worth a visit if your in the area.
Places shown in this brief visit:
Durie Hill Tower -
River Traders Market -
New Zealand Glassworks -
Article Cafe -
Castlecliff Beach -
The Grand -
Virginia Lake -
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All Video and Photography Copyright Ian Ryan 2018.
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Views of Fielding, NZ, old buildings and town scenes
A video I`ve created from photos which I took, on a visit to Fielding, and to Marton, both towns being near Palmerston North, in the North Island of New Zealand
Tours, activities and attractions Whanganui
Bushy Park Sanctuary, Whanganui
Bushy Park Sanctuary is located on the west coast of the North Island of New Zealand, at 791 Rangitatau East Road. It is 8 kilometres from Kai Iwi and 25 kilometres from Whanganui City.
The sanctuary is a 100 hectare predator-free native bird sanctuary, set amongst one of the few patches of virgin lowland forest. According to Ecological Management & Restoration, the journal of The Ecological Society of Australia along with SER International, the world’s premier restoration body, have ranked Bushy Park as one of Australasia’s “Top 25” Restoration Projects.
Within the Bushy Park Sanctuary there are 3.4km of metalled or well-formed walking tracks throughout the forest providing easy all-weather access for visitors. Tree species include mahoe, mamaku, pukatea, rata, and rimu along with colonies of ferns and mosses. A feature of the reserve is a large northern rata Metrosideros robusta named Ratanui (Big Rata). It is estimated to be between 500 and 1000 years old and is 43 metres in height and has a girth that exceeds 11 metres.
With a wide variety of birdlife thriving in the sanctuary, on your visit you will be able to see or hear species such as bellbirds, kereru, north island robin, saddlebacks, hihi, moreporks as well as the falcon, fantail, grey warbler, mallard, pukeko, silvereye, kingfishers, and white-faced heron. The sanctuary is home to some kiwi too.
Giraffe weevils, glowworms, and huhu beetles also inhabit Bushy Park.
As well as the Sanctuary, the property also features an Edwardian-era homestead that is a Category One Heritage Building registered with the New Zealand Historic Places Trust. The 22-room homestead, designed by Charles Tilleard Natusch, includes a 33 metre long, 1.8 metre-wide hall that runs the length of the residence. In 1962 G.F.Moore bequeathed Bushy Park to the Royal New Zealand Forest & Bird Protection Society. In 1995 the Society transferred ownership of the Homestead, Stables and a surrounding area of 11.7ha. (27acres) to an independent Trust now known as Bushy Park Trust who continue to run the Park. In addition it delegated to the Trust, by way of a lease in Perpetuity, management of the forest area in accordance with a mutually agreed plan. It is is possible to book a stay at the homestead. Contact the Whanganui I-site for more details:
Summer opening hours are from 10am to 3pm daily during the week and 10am to 5pm at weekends and holidays. Winter opening hours from May to November are Saturdays and Sundays from 11am until 4pm. The Homestead is closed Monday-Friday, except by prior arrangement.
There is a small fee for visiting the Bushy Park Sanctuary. Currently the fee is $10 for adults, while all children (15 years and younger) are free.
Please pay your fee at the Homestead when it is open and it will give you access to the Homestead, the Homestead grounds and the forest. You can still enter the forest within daylight hours, and we request you deposit your entry fee into the donations box located at the track entrance adjacent to the Stables.
Nelson-Tasman Tourist Attractions: 15 Top Places to Visit
Planning to visit Nelson-Tasman? Check out our Nelson-Tasman Travel Guide video and see top most Tourist Attractions in Nelson-Tasman.
Top Places to visit in Nelson-Tasman (New Zealand):
World of WearableArt & Classic Cars Museum, Abel Tasman Coast Track, Centre of New Zealand, Kaiteriteri Beach, Anatoki Salmon, Christ Church Cathedral, Queen's Gardens, Wharariki Beach Walking Track, Ngarua Caves, Nelson Provincial Museum, Wainui Falls Track, Nelson Lakes National Park, Broadgreen Historic House, Split Apple Rock, Wreck of the Janie Seddon
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The Road to Taumarunui - New Zealand's Biggest Gap Year – Backpacker Guide New Zealand
Day 36: Today we are road tripping to Taumarunui in the Manawatu-Wanganui region of New Zealand! It’s part of the New Zealand’s Biggest Gap Year web series!
Yesterday - Day 35 -
Tomorrow – Day 37 – Check in tomorrow!
About this video:
So today we are leaving Piopio and now delving through a few different districts of New Zealand on this road trip. Unlike our other videos where we are doing 365 Days: 365 Activities, this day brings us nothing but rain but some pretty cool countryside scenery around the Taumarunui area. But don’t worry, we are still doing 365 Days: 365 Activities and we sure as hell will make up for it later! We’ll do a couple of activities in a day if we have to! (Not that we’re complaining). In the meantime, enjoy our nonsense as we travel through the King Country, the Horizons Region and into the Ruapehu district.
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New Zealand Biggest Gap Year
365 Days: 365 Activities
This year, Robin and Laura from the online travel guide BackpackerGuide.NZ, are hitting the road for 365 Days doing 365 Activities! We call it New Zealand’s BIGGEST Gap Year! Join us as we travel the whole of New Zealand doing the most epic activities and seeing the most epic places. It’s a true backpacking New Zealand experience you do not want to miss!
Read more about the The road to Taumarunui on New Zealand’s biggest guide for backpackers:
Te Araroa documentary - Part 11 - Whakahoro to Whanganui
The part between Whakahoro and Whanganui is the only stretch where we don't have to walk. Is time for kayaking :D Within 5 days we kayaked about 180 km through mother nature's beautiful landscape. So much fun. Enjoy, enjoy, enjoy.
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Musik by Derek Clegg