GO NZ: The most unconventional town tours in New Zealand

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The Poltergeist of the Precinct: Head spherical the spookier sections of Dunedin on a Hair Raiser Ghost Wander. Image / FIle

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Been there, finished that, noticed it all? Quite possibly not, writes Karl Puschmann

You never have to stray deep off the overwhelmed path to experience a little something special or abnormal. As we have learned, the overwhelmed path even now has several surprises and out of the everyday activities to enjoy.

Here’s a tiny showcase of some bizarre and superb guided excursions and ordeals ready for you to get pleasure from in city centres around the nation.

Whāngārei

Typically, a tour will bundle you into a mini-van or a shuttle bus or some other deeply uncool people today-transferring form of transport. Not so on Whāngārei’s Tame the Beast tour. As an alternative, you will be driven all over the city in wonderful type in just one of their classic V8 automobiles. If you like two wheels around 4, hop on a person of their Harley Davidson motorbikes and hit the streets. They’ll choose you to Pataua South, Ocean Beach front and Whāngārei Heads, stopping for refreshments along the way, at scenic walks and to share tales of the space. So get your motor operating and head out on the highway with the beasts.
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Auckland

Uncommon does not need to have to suggest awkward. For a much more luxe working day out, think about indulging in the Platinum Practical experience in the course of the impending Auckland Cup Week at Ellerslie Racecourse. You’ll be presented a driving-the-scenes tour, get to snap a selfie with the jockeys and watch the track’s globe-famous commentator, George Simon, connect with a race reside from his perch up on the fifth floor of the Ascot Stand. That is thirsty operate, so go combine and mingle with culture sorts in the Appreciate Racing Proprietors Enclosure where by a racing insider will satisfy up to talk about the horses he thinks are experience fast . . . nudge, nudge, wink, wink.
ellerslie.co.nz/platinum-knowledge-ellerslie

Napier

You really don’t want a DeLorean outfitted with a nuclear-driven flux capacitor barrelling at 88mph to go back in time. As an alternative, merely make a leisurely generate to Napier and be transported back again 90 many years to the vivid 1930s.

Famed as the Art Deco Funds of the World, Napier’s vibrant architecture of the era has been embraced and lovingly preserved. It will make it a comprehensively unconventional area to stop by and 1 that proves that if modern architects experienced some creativity and pleasure in their do the job we could be dwelling in inspiring towns as an alternative of unlimited drab gray rectangles.

Tour the ideal of Napier’s sights with the Art Deco rely on. You can acquire a guided walking tour, or vacation in fashion in a gorgeous vintage car or truck when acquiring pro commentary on the region’s historical past and highlights.
artdeconapier.com

Ship n' Chips: The tour of Wellington harbour comes with a classic Kiwi fish supper. Photo / Fiona Goodall, Getty Images
Ship n’ Chips: The tour of Wellington harbour will come with a classic Kiwi fish supper. Photograph / Fiona Goodall, Getty Photographs

Wellington

We had been offered on Wellington Museum’s Ship ‘n’ Chip tour the instant we acquired that at the half-way point you go away the museum, hop on a ferry, head into the harbour and get served a classic Kiwi lunch of scrumptious fish ‘n’ chips. All museum tours should really cease for a fish ‘n’ chips lunch from now on.

Along with providing you a entire belly, the tour will also fill your brain with quirky and exceptional stories about our honest nation’s capital town right before giving you a likelihood to walk off lunch when the ferry docks at the flora and fauna stuffed Matiu/Somes Island.
museumswellington.org.nz/shipnchip

Taranaki

Touring is hungry function so if you’re browsing Taranaki check out the Flavor and Tales tour. Just about every of the 4 excursions will take you guiding the scenes at New Plymouth’s boutique foodstuff producers and assure a excursion loaded with attention-grabbing insights and mouth-watering foods and consume.

Depending on which tour you select, you are going to visit microbreweries, handcrafted icecream outlets, award-successful Texas barbecue, a boutique rum or gin distillery or a pizzeria on the beach, to identify just a number of of the delightful venues.

The most difficult portion will be selecting which of the 4 to decide on, so why not block out four times and do them all. Gluttony is permissible when it all tastes this great.
tasteandtales.co.nz

Nelson

Most persons pick to tackle the Ngā Haerenga cycle trails with buddies or relatives, so heading with a guidebook can be deemed an abnormal choice. But for individuals setting off on Nelson’s 34km Coppermine loop, having a tutorial is a fantastic idea. Even though the trail is quite uncomplicated and easy, the guides at Gravity Nelson delight on their own on turning this welcoming trail into “the journey of a life span”. They offer stories along the way, keep you safe and on keep track of and come armed and ready with adequate poor jokes and silliness to retain even the most puffed peddler smiling throughout the journey’s 3-5 hrs.
gravitynelson.co.nz

It's hard to find a more unusual way to get around than on a Segway. Photo / Stephen Parker
It truly is tricky to find a far more unconventional way to get about than on a Segway. Image / Stephen Parker

Queenstown

As significantly as acquiring around goes, it truly is tricky to find a extra uncommon way than on a Segway, the two-wheeled machine you function as a result of the power of equilibrium. Right after a speedy schooling session will get you up to speed on the exciting motions needed to command the system, Segway on Q will direct you on a tour about Queenstown’s notable and very scenic spots. You are going to coast as a result of the tour just before remaining presented the alternative to engage the Segway’s superior-pace manner for a hair-raising dash house.
segwayonq.co.nz

Dunedin

If you will find a thing strange in your neighbourhood you might be almost certainly in Dunedin, a city pretty much alive with the undead. Around each and every corner in this Gothic town is a spooky story or horrible haunt. So if you are sensation especially brave when you take a look at, pull on your huge boy/girl trousers and head out on a Hair Raiser Ghost Wander, a guided strolling tour by way of the scariest elements of city. It is really assured to mail a chill down your spine. And not simply because of Dunedin’s popular chilly . . .
hairraisertours.com/ghost-wander

For more New Zealand vacation suggestions and inspiration, go to newfinder.co.nz and newzealand.com