It’s visible from the Auckland Harbour Bridge and western city beaches, hard to miss the pinky pink colour, and memories of pink sugar bags. Here’s the Chelsea sugar factory, where barges bring raw sugar and a factory creates New Zealand’s sugar stocks.
Read MoreMuriwai moments - in among celebrated west Auckland gannets, of all kinds...
On the road in Auckland’s western parts, you’ll be not far, but a world away, from this city’s urban heart. You’re off to those dramatic coastal shores the region is rightly famous for - Muriwai bound, looking forward to black sand between your toes and the sound of waves crashing to shore. And, quite possibly, the wind pressing right up against you, in well known west coast style.
Read MoreHanmer Springs - calling in for a picnic stop and healing waters, in a southern spa town
Sitting at picnic tables, under tall trees in the main street of Hanmer Springs, a small alpine town in the Canterbury region of the South Island…the springs in the name gives a clue. Here you’re in a beautiful spa town, inland and north of Christchurch.
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