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As a result, there are several tour operators that offer a variety of trip combinations covering all or part of the route. Although the Great Walk route ends at Pipiriki, the river is navigable for a further 89 km and some canoeists continue, to exit at the main bridge in Whanganui, which takes a further two days. Because the river is tidal ...
After being buried in the river mud for nearly 40 years, the Waimarie was salvaged by volunteers in 1993. The restoration of the vessel was adopted as a sesquicentennial project in Whanganui. After a six-year restoration project, the PS Waimarie was re-commissioned, and commenced tourist cruises on 1 January 2000. [2]
The River Valley Lodge offers guided rafting, wooden boat tours, and horse treks. [3] It has also partnered with the Māori owners of the Aorangi Mountain to the west to provide one-day hiking trips. [4] However, the company often struggles to recruit rafting guides due to the area's isolation and lack of housing. [5]
The Whanganui River is a major river in the North Island of New Zealand. It is the country's third-longest river, and has special status owing to its importance to the region's Māori people . In March 2017 it became the world's second natural resource (after Te Urewera ) to be given its own legal identity, with the rights, duties and ...
Manunui (Māori: Mananui) is a small Whanganui River settlement, about 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) east of Taumarunui on State Highway 4, in New Zealand's King Country.It was once known as Waimarino, but John Burnand of the Ellis and Burnand sawmilling firm renamed it Manunui around 1905.
The Bridge to Nowhere is a concrete road bridge spanning the Mangapurua Stream in Whanganui National Park, North Island, New Zealand.It has no roads leading to it, but it is a popular tourist attraction, accessible by mountain bike or tramping on a variety of different tracks, or by boat or kayak, followed by a 45-minute (one way) walk along maintained bush trails.
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