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Huka Falls: New Zealand’s most visited – and photographed – natural attraction
The sound and the fury, indeed!
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Zealandia: the world’s first fully-fenced urban ecosanctuary
https://www.aa.co.nz/travel/must-dos/zealandia-the-worlds-first-fully-fenced-urban-ecosanctuary/
Zealandia, formerly known as the Karori Wildlife Sanctuary, packs an awful lot into a relatively small (less than 2.6 square kilometres) space.
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Kāpiti Island Nature Reserve: an accessible island sanctuary
‘We’ll pitch our tent/on Kāpiti Rock,’ sang one of this country’s finest singing sons, mariner and musician Andrew Fagan.
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Te Papa Tongarewa: Museum of New Zealand
Te Papa: its location alone is a treasure.
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Take in the spectacular beauty of the Cook Strait crossing
They don’t call this part of the planet ‘The Roaring Forties’ because it’s a sedate little paddle across.
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Pūkaha Mount Bruce National Wildlife Centre: all that’s great and native in the avian category
Right regular Kiwi bloke’s name, Bruce, and this amazing wildlife centre is filled with the most Kiwi of creatures, especially bird-like ones.
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Cape Palliser: the wild southern tip of the North Island
This is a freaky part of the world, a wild, windblown promontory that is the southernmost tip of the North Island.
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Cape Kidnappers’ Gannet Colony: the exhilarating sight of 20,000 gannets
Some things harness and then reflect significant power over the visitor because of their singular majesty: mountains, iconic buildings, Tāne Mahuta.
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Napier Art Deco Festival: vintage colour and charm
https://www.aa.co.nz/travel/must-dos/napier-art-deco-festival-colour-charm-and-art-deco/
Napier and its outlying towns had to rebuild after the devastating 1931 earthquake.
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Castlepoint Scenic Reserve: the views, the views, the views
https://www.aa.co.nz/travel/must-dos/castlepoint-scenic-reserve-the-views-the-views-the-views/
What a stretch of coast! It looks like it should be wild and woolly – and it can be in parts – but down here where the Castlepoint lighthouse shines...