Sights in Central Hawkes Bay
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Te Aute College
The prestigious Te Aute College schooled many Maori leaders including James Carroll and Apirana Ngata. Call ahead if you want to visit the wonderful carved meeting house and church.
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Central Hawke’s Bay Settler’s Museum
The Central Hawke’s Bay Settler’s Museum has pioneer artefacts, informative ‘homestead’ displays and a good specimen of a river waka (canoe).
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Tikokino
Tikokino was once a timber town but is now known for its lovely private gardens, open to visitors during spring and early summer. The information centre can help you with details.
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Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu
It’s a nondescript hill in the middle of nowhere, but the place with the world’s longest name is good for a photo op. Believe it or not, Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu is the abbreviated form of ‘The Brow of a Hill Where Tamatea, the Man with the Big Knees, Who Slid, Climbed, and Swallowed Mountains, Known as Land Eater, Played his Flute to his Brother’. Tamatea Pokaiwhenua (Land Eater) was so famous for his epic North Island travels, people said he consumed the land with his strides. After his brother’s demise in the Matanui battle, Tamatea sat on this hill with his flute and played a lament to his fallen sibling. To…
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Ongaonga
is a historic village 16km west of Waipawa with interesting Victorian and Edwardian buildings. Pick up a pamphlet for a self-guided walking tour from the information centre in Waipukurau.
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Christ Church
Across the road next to a marae is little Christ Church (1859), the district’s oldest.
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