Category Tauranga

New Zealand/Australia 2024 – Tauranga, Part Two

January 2 – 4, 2024 We finished up at the Redwood Grove and motored a short distance to the Living Village.  It is a semi-rural geothermal area in the Taupō Volcanic Zone that was the site of the Māori fortress of Te Puia, first occupied around 1325, and known as an impenetrable stronghold never taken […]

New Zealand/Australia 2024 – Tauranga, Part One

January 2 – 4, 2024 We finished at Winona Forever and called a couple of Ubers (Auckland didn’t have any large enough for all five of us) to get us to the Sky City Bus Terminal on Hobson Street, where we arrived soon after.  This, our first interaction with the bus system, would be mildly […]