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Give us your veiws on the best places (and why) to visit when in New Zealand
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Rotorua... plenty to do and see.
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How about visiting the SkyTower.... or chucking yourself off it like in the last photo...
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Very good. Keep 'em comming
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Very good. Keep 'em comming
a heli hike at The Fox glacier,http://www.foxguides.co.nz/helihike.asp


Milford sound cruise

Mt Cook.
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a heli hike at The Fox glacier,http://www.foxguides.co.nz/helihike.asp


Milford sound cruise

Mt Cook.
Looks fun
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Looks fun
yep, When people ask our kids what their best holiday ever , was , they say the one in NZ where we went helihiking. Daughter fell in love with the helihike guide (she was only 8yrs old)
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The beach robably mt mounganui where you can start to practive your surfing tecniques on a body board.

I might go to the beach today actually.....
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Two places for me

1. The observatory Restaurant in Sky Tower, Auckland
( Kev reckons the best view from a toilet anywhere!!!)

2. The shotover in Queenstown
www.shotover.co.nz The best excuse I've ever found to scream like a girl!!!!

Just thought of one more!!

Walter Peak
www.realjourneys.co.nz/main/farm

Best wet afternoon ever!!!
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Two places for me

1. The observatory Restaurant in Sky Tower, Auckland
( Kev reckons the best view from a toilet anywhere!!!)

2. The shotover in Queenstown
www.shotover.co.nz The best excuse I've ever found to scream like a girl!!!!

Just thought of one more!!

Walter Peak
www.realjourneys.co.nz/main/farm

Best wet afternoon ever!!!
There is not a window in the ladies?????
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There is not a window in the ladies?????

Course there is but the door gets in the way, if you get my drift!!!
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yep, When people ask our kids what their best holiday ever , was , they say the one in NZ where we went helihiking. Daughter fell in love with the helihike guide (she was only 8yrs old)
The day I was due to go hiking on Franz some poor bastard got his feet locked together in his crampons, tripped, went head first down a crevasse and died.

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Course there is but the door gets in the way, if you get my drift!!!
Oh right
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Default Re: The best places to visit in New Zealand

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Hi there-we loved all we saw-our friends we visited were ace ,but highlights were
1.Warkworth,north of Auckland-picturesque,lovely surrounds
2 The Coromandel,Thames etc-
3.Tauranga to Rotarua-scenic green drive-lots to see
4 Lake Taupo-fab
5 Taranaki-underrated but stunning
6 Hawkes Bay esp the food/produce
7 driving down the Kapiti coast
8 I love Welly
9 Nelson/Abel Tasman-lovely mussels!/wine
10.Christchurch/Akaroa-scenic
Wished wed had time to see more eg Dunedin ,Queenstown etc-We went in the month of April-lovely weather"just right".
enjoy!!
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Anymore places?

Especially in the North Island
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