Activities in Hastings & Around
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Filter Room
Surrounded by orchards, these folk offer a large range of beers and ciders, all brewed on-site, plus a $12 tasting tray and tummy-filling food.
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Silky Oak Chocolate Company
Watch the chocolatiers at work while deliberating over mouth-watering truffles and chocolate rugby balls. The museum (adult/child $8/5) offers a chocolate-drenched history and the odd ancient Mayan artefact. There’s a cafe next door.
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Telegraph Hill
A small producer of olives, oils and all sorts of Mediterranean-influenced gourmet treats. Four-person picnic baskets ($30) available for on-site indulgence.
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Te Mata Cheese Company
Watch the cheesemakers through the window, have a platter and a glass of vino in the garden, then gather up some picnic supplies to go.
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Splash Planet
Hastings’ massive Splash Planet has plenty of pools, slides and aquatic excitement.
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Vince’s World Of Wine
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Te Hakakino
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Prinsy’s
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On Yer Bike
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Odyssey NZ
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Long Island Tours
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Grape Escape
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Friendly Kiwi Tours
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Early Morning Balloons
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Bike D’Vine
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Bike About Tours
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Bay Tours & Charters
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Airplay Paragliding
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Te Mata Peak
Spiking melodramatically from the Heretaunga Plains, Te Mata Peak, 16km south of Havelock North, is part of the 98-hectare Te Mata Trust Park. The road to the 399m summit passes sheep trails, rickety fences and vertigo-inducing stone escarpments cowled in a bleak, lunar-meets-Scottish-Highland atmosphere. The lookout at the top could do with a makeover by the Rotarians, but it’s really all about the views which – on a clear day – fall away to Hawke Bay, Mahia Peninsula and distant Mt Ruapehu.
The view of Te Mata is also extraordinary. To local Maori this is the sleeping giant Te Mata O Rongokako. From the fields around Havelock North, a little imagination will conju…
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