Sights in Thames
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Goldmine Experience
The Goldmine Experience allows you to walk through a gold-mine tunnel, watch a stamper battery crush rock, learn about the history of the Cornish miners and try your hand at panning for gold ($2 extra).
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Butterfly & Orchid Garden
Kids (little or large) with a fairy complex will adore the Butterfly & Orchid Garden, north of town within the Dickson Holiday Park. It’s an enclosed jungle full of hundreds of exotic flappers.
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School of Mines & Mineral Museum
The i-SITE stocks free Historic Places Trust self-tour pamphlets of Thames’ significant buildings. The Trust also runs tours of the interesting School of Mines & Mineral Museum, which has an extensive collection of NZ rocks, minerals and fossils. The oldest section (1868) was part of a Methodist Sunday school, situated on a Maori burial ground.
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Historical Museum
The historical museum houses pioneer relics, rocks and old photographs of the town.
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