Holidays in New Zealand....2

 Skyline Gondola & Luge...

Skyline Gondola

 The Entire family Fun begins here... It may include your granny, grandpa, mommy, daddy and of course your little ones....!! People visits here every now and then.. Its been a all weather attraction of New Zealand...!!! Skyline Gondola and Luge situated at the high on Mount Ngongotaha.... it gives you fabulous viewing of Rotorua city, Green blue Lake, hot-n-cold thermal activity and eye catching Surroundings.. !!

Quick Treasures that are unvailed at Gondola are:-

1. Cableway Gondola that takes you to the complex.
2. LUGE Home, Kiwi's Cleverness, Creativity, resourcefulness.
3. You can either Sprawl Down in the Terraces Cafe - its one of the best casual Dining options in Rotorua City..!!!
4. Immerse into the views and enjoy the extravagant 'Best of  The New Zealand Buffets & Grills' dining in the Cableway Restaurant & Bar...
5. Witness Rotorua from another Arial View with HeliPro flights or take The Thrilling ride on the Sky Swing. 

Skyline Gondola

 Agrodome...

Agrodome is almost biggest working Sheeps and Cattlefarm with more than 1,300 Sheeps and 150 beef Cattles.

Live experience of real life farming and real hands-on experience of a cattle-sheep keeping gives visitor a WOW attraction...  It also has Goats, Deer, Ostriches and Alpacas. In the evening the grand attraction includes sheep show that is world famous!

Agrodome Sheep Show

You are an Adventure seeker..??? Then hold your breath...!!! Agrodome is your Heaven for you guys..!!! 

Agrodome host the fascinating activities like Swoop, AgroJet, Zorb, Freefall Xtreme, the Helipro and many more!!!!!

The shearing shed consists of many rare equipments like wool presses, vintage shaft drive shearing machine (still fully functional and is used for live demonstrations on a regular basis) also it has few rare grinders !!!!!. 

It is the new and totally recreated development at the Agrodome..!

Paradise Valley Springs & Wild Life.!

Here you can enjoy nice Rainbow and BrownTrout, native New Zealand birds, very friendly farm animals, also pure spring water - Te Waireka (Sweet Water)

Wild Life at Paradise Valley Springs is a sweet sugar candy for entire family..!! The Wild animals from this Wild Life park are trained in that way.... Human interaction is very common in these ferocious species..!! Treat them like your favorite pet..!!!

Do you have a Dream of the Lifetime as to have a LION or the TIGER as a pet..!!!!

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Do you want to touch real threatening and roaring Lion with no Harm.??? :-)Do you want to take Lioness cubs in arms and feed like a baby..???? Want to know what is the weight of a cub..? How is actual skin touch of a Tigress.? How it feels to tap gently on a Lions back..??

Here is THAT GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY for you ..!!!

One of the beautifully maintained and with extra nature care Paradise Valley is proudly carrying its ranking at very high stage if you consider the world's wild parks rankings...

In Entire park you will find maximum 90% natural material and reusable things all over.. For example, wooden board walks and the flat cobble stone paths are wide and easily accessible for all.

Another good to visit thing to this wild life is its Low fence technology..... Lower fences means clear and secure interaction with the wildlife. View of the edge of the Mamaku Ranges are simple awesome..!

The park is home for New Zealand Deer, Giant Eels, Tharr (goats), Kune Kune pigs, Wallabies, Friendly Farm Animals, Native Birds, and many more! Their specially designed enclosure allows visitors to get very close to these wild animals.

Thermal mud pools and geysers.

Come.... Join the HOT BATH...! Mud pools and geysers always welcome you here... 

The world famous  Pohutu (A big Explosion) Pohutu can raise upto 35 metres high, if you are lucky to witness..!!!

Here you can sense daily geysers erupt, bubbles from mud pools, steam noises and lukewarm water rains pouring surroundings....Some 450 such pools and 76 plus Geyser emits are there.... Also, each has its own name, Out of these all, almost Eight geysers are live and active. 

Dancing with the ancestors style, war dance  (Haka), Poi dance and the complexity of Tititorea, the stick games can be experienced in the midday concerts at Te Puia..!  It is really nice and easy exciting introduction to the New Zealand's culture. 

Tourists congregate near the main entrance to the Marae. An old and traditional welcome marks the start of 50 minutes with their traditional song and dance inside the sacred meeting house which is surrounded by the ancestors beautiful carvings. To amuse yourself do visit Te Wananga Whakairo (traditional carving School) and Te Rito (weaving school).. Here the Maori's - young and old, are learning hands-on tradition in a craft making that is centuries old.!!!

Cruise on the Interislander Ferry

Inter islander ferry

One of the most beautiest ferry rides in the world"- You will surely Agree this sentence once you complete your journey of this very lovely wonderland ride..!!!!.

New Zealand's most spectacular cruise is "Inter islander Ferry Ride" It is in between of the North and South Islands total 92 km journey between Wellington and Picton... Normally it takes three hours and obviously makes this wonderful experience as an "Alice in wonderland" experience of the tour.. 

The Aratere (quick path), The Arahura (pathway to dawn) and The Kaitaki (challenger) are the three giants that sail through these wonderful journey...!. 

The Arahura (pathway to dawn). The Arahura River of West Coast from the South Island's is the country's main source. It is very precious to Maori and they call the South Island - "Te Wai Pounamu" that means - the place of the green stone.!!

The Aratere (quick path). It is high speed, technologically sound powerful water cutters operating in New Zealand water. Aratere provide travellers a "quick path-way" across Cook Strait, they are also very comfortable, entertaining, neat, safe and scenic cruise in the world. 

The Kaitaki (challenger) They carry almost 1700 tourists at a time..!!! That makes them the largest sailing ship in Interislander's and also the largest ferry operating in New Zealand waters. 

Tranz Alpine Rail Journey

Rated one of the world’s great beautiful scenic railway journey is The TranzAlpine..

Unforgettable rail experience begins from Christchurch and ends at Greymouth.. that is from one coast of New Zealand to other. The trip is 225 kilometres long and takes just five hours. There are 5 viaducts and 16 tunnels.

Tranz Alpine Rail Journey

You can view the beautiful scenery of the heaven... the fields of the Canterbury, farms, farmland, then the gorges and river valleys of the Waimakariri River. after that your rail journey's next attraction is the Southern Alps before vanishing through rain forest to the West Coast town of Greymouth... Remember greymouth is the great start point for trips to Punakaiki.. 

If you have only weekend still your journey is the best and luxirious trip... If you are newly wed then this is the best journey gift to your Wife... we can term it as The Honeymoon Vacation Highs.... Various carriage coaches are available to serve you at your ease... like an Open air viewing carriage, group carriage, seating carriage!

 Milford Sound Cruise

If I am not wrong... your inner voice would agree that the Milford Sound Cruise is the 9th wonder of the World .... Milford Sound --- Its amazing structure, uniqueness, wild nature always draws tourists from all over the world to cruise its pathway...!!  Luxurious Rainforest, sheer green and blue water, challenging straight walls on the rock..... 

Indeed, Milford is incredibly a Grand.!!! Its skytouching 'Mitre Peak' hypnotizes the photographers. Milford Sound can also be accessed by road. It is around 19 km from the Fiord to the open sea, which means spectators may comfortably go and come back easily from the length of the fiord to open ocean in two hours time. It is really a great place to enjoy the scenery of Milford Sound in style with passion..!

Holidays in New Zealand.....

Yes....... You jump in chair when its time to pack-up for vacation in God's lovely country....

New Zealand Calling....

A Grand tour of 19 big days starts from NORTH ISLAND (Auckland) and takes you to SOUTH ISLAND (Christchurch).. These 19 days were literally SPENT HEAVENLY for all of us...

All the Tourists who were on the Cruise by 'Grand Pacific'....

The best places to visit all over NEW ZEALAND are:-

01. Great Kauri Museum & Lakes District Museum

02. Waitangi Treaty Grounds..

03. Great Dolphin & Hole in the Rock Cruise

04. Amazing Sky Tower

05. Longlands Restaurant & Farms

06. One in its best - Skyline Gondola & Luge

07. Agrodome...

08. Paradise Valley Springs & Cool Wild Life

09. Hot Thermal mud pools and geysers..

10. Cruise on the Inter islander Ferry..

11. Rail Journey at Tranz Alpine

12. Sound Cruise at Milford

13. Cruise Lake Wakatipu on the TSS Earnslaw

14.  The only Larnach Castle

15. Gardens - Glenfalloch Woodland

Now lets Get on the natural beauty on New Zealand...

Here are my favorite places...

West Coast Fox Glacier,
Milform Marine
Mount Cook - Arorakee..!

I Was so fascinated when we started our journey through the guided tour. These guided tours are really helpful to travel around the country... Just within 1 day we became very familiar with all people because of their friendliness and ease factor as they have been trained that way...

West Coast Fox Glacier, Milform Marine and Mount Cook - Arorakee are few of the great places to roam around.

The Milford Road is a great drive to stunning fascinating Alpine. Visitors may stop number of time to click click click at the numerous viewing points..... People should be granted such spots where they can rely on their eyes to gulp the beautiful scenery... The distance from Te Anau to Milford Sound is 119km (approximately. 75 miles) and the road takes a minimum of 2.30 hours driving straight without getting a chance to stop every now and then...!

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Great Dolphin & Hole in the Rock Cruise.

You have to control your enthusiasm for watching dolphins, penguins and numerous Seals...!!

The best maritimepark in New Zealand is with the 144 Islands and surrounded bays.

A Plenty of Ocean life, which includes the big merlin, sharp whales, cute penguins, eye catching Dolphins, and many other such lovely oceanic species.

The Bay has prestigious natural environment concludes these number of species in the South Pacific area for overseas sailing various yachts on world level cruises, sport fishermen, international golfers and marine divers. Eyes, mind and soul catching various natural plays from these ocenic dancers invites you to have a personal visit to this adventurous and romantic place of sheer clean and at the same time green New Zealand... If you are newly wed the HEAVEN is the only another word you can call it as...!!!

There are many luxurious to economic cruises available to get to near these sea dancers named as  "Dolphins"... Islands have rich Dolphins that are trained in natural environment to please greediness of your camera...!!!!!!

Your further journey to the the Cape Brett Light house will be very much tireless and you will be amused on the way by these Dolphins...!.

The famous "Hole in the Rock" and Motukokako Island is the best excitement in the series...and it grows on every walking feet as you pass the Rock Hole ...your steps to the passage to the majestic Grand Cathedral Cave..!!!.

You can view nutshells and plenty of pearl catchers on the way to the inner islands journey.  Lovely crystal clear water and the sandy beaches, marine wild life, beautiful bays and your family..... that's the best part we can describe the silent happiness while on the journey to the beautiful Urupukapuka Island where there are various plays, activities awaits..!. 

HOME ON WHEELS.....

 

One more attraction we came across is just a customized homes on wheels..!!

Yeah... You can opt for this option to experience the country side, village life with numerous stops as you want and where it pleases you.... 

There are high quality and secure wagons that are made for your luxurious and hassle free travel all over the New Zealand site seeing journey... It is really a great experience to drive such a superb home that is on wheels....even if you seat near the driving seat and drink the beauty of nature by your bare eyes... it is worth hiring such vehicle..!

The maps and road signs are also very easy to readout and understand for a person who is riding HOME on WHEELS even for the first time..!! I congratulate Government and local authority for behaving with courtesy and honesty whenever time came to approach them..... 

Juorney from North to South island is really free of tension and gave pleasure to visiting again and again..... 

 Amazing Sky Tower...

This is the next superb attraction...

It is the tallest tower of the Southern Hemisphere... goes in the sky by 328 Metres. Heart pouncing and  breath taking Arial view gives us sigh of happiness..... the area covers more than 85 KMs in all four every direction....!!!!

Alltime highest view and with the latest interactive technology you can straight climb to the top.... Hold your breath and head straight to the top. There are three circular public observation levels - Main Observation level, Sky Deck, and Sky Lounge - from which you can get a 360-degree view of Auckland...!!!!

Three glass covered elevators can take 225 people to the observation levels every 15-20 minutes. !!!!!

These elevator travels with 20 km per hr and the ride takes only 40 seconds.!!!!

You are young and enthu..???? Why dont you take a Long walk then..??? :-)  There are total 1,267 steps from the base to Sky Deck. You may reach in 29 minutes to on the Sky Deck by walking....  From the Sky Tower you can see 51 miles.  

                                  .....to be continue...!!!