Greetings to New Zealand! Definately one of my 11 Best Places To Retire & Live. Read more about NZ, see pictures, watch video... and get my FREE ebook "How To Immigrate - Guide To Moving Overseas" at: http://www.best-places-to-retire.guideebook.com
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Dear all travellers, Do you want to visit Cambodia? If you want to come and have plan to visit Cambodia, you can come to visit and help us at the orphanage and schools. You can help us teaching English to children, we can provide you accommodation/food and internet. Please come and visit us you will be enjoying with our children. If you're interesting you can contact directly to our director Mr. Samnang by needvolunteers@gmail.com or please visit us at: Need Volunteer Group for more information. Thank you!
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I blogged one of my favourite backroads trips in NZ, which we did over the Christmas holidays. http://h1bpositive.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-zealand-backroads-kihikihi-to-lake.html
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Anyone familiar with Croesus Crossing from Barrytown to Blackball?
I'll be traveling and running around the South Island December through January and just signed up for a 25K trail run called Croesus Crossing that starts at the Blackball Hilton on the West Coast. It sounds like a very demanding event; here's the site http://www.nelsonevents.co.nz/CroesusCrossingRaceInfo.htm
If anyone is familiar with this trail and can tell me more about it, or general recommendations about where to go on the West Coast, I'd appreciate it. thanks! -
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Kiwi House The Otorohanga Kiwi House is a rather tacky and unpolished tourist attraction, almost "home made", but the people working there talk to you with such passion about these little animals and their quirky ways that you can't help but fall in love with them and embrace the whole experience...<http://www.kiwihouse.org.nz/>;
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Bra Fence This is on the back road between Wanaka and Queenstown along the Cardrona Valley, only in NZ you give yourself permission to drive to, stop at and be amused by a bra fence! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardrona_Bra_Fence
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Blue Mountains, Upper Hutt Pictured here with a rush of cyclists climbing through the trees on big chain rings during the NZ Road race championships of 2006, this 2km stretch of hill-climb qualifies as a special back-road on it's own. You could ride North out of Wellington (towards the Wairarapa) and never know this parallel route existed. I've been up and down it a hundred times. Getting there from the city is un-memorable. The ride from the top of the hill through Whiteman's Valley is nice, but road surfaces make it nothing special. It is this hill alone that sticks in my memory as a brilliant 'back-road'.
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Karapoti - offroad road-trip par excellence Whilst the Karapoti Classic mountain bike race is an annual chance to ride this route through the Akatarawa mountains North of Wellington, it is open year round for the adventurous mountain biker or trail bike rider. You want to see what NZ was like 150 years ago? On your bike! There are plenty of websites to help you find the way - take a map and ideally, someone who has ridden it before. Best memory ever? Riding it in 3 1/2 hours one Saturday morning with Dave Robertson - me on my new GT LTS and him on a tricked up Proflex with dual suspension. And we just did it like it was a ride to the shop. Years later, puffing around in nearly 6 hours with cramp and exhaustion, I reflected on the disgraceful human process of aging. Me that is, not Dave!
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RD400. Where this all began. When I was 15 and growing up in NZ, a boy could not hope to own a car - far too expensive. Coupled with a passion for off-road motorcycling (farm life), the natural thing to do was to get two wheels and discover the place I lived. The quantum leap came with the arrival of a Yamaha RD400, same as my big brother's bike and capable of doing anything. In 1978, pretty much every road in the North Island was a backroad. My quest to ride them all had begun.
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As tourism replaces travel, the special journeys are becoming harder to find. This Group celebrates the obscure and hard to find pleasures of NZ's back roads and routes. Mode of travel? Don't care - two wheels, four wheels, or on foot.
Join us if you're willing to share and celebrate a secret road trip that avoids anything with the words 'State Highway' in it.
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