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Wanganui
is a beautiful city and its river is a focal point for many of the town's
attractions. Cruises on the river aboard a paddle steamer are popular
with visitors to the city, or the more adventurous could try their hand
at jet boating, kayaking, or other eco tourist activities. The town has pretty gardens, an excellent
Museum and an Art Gallery. A climb to the top of the 32 metre high
memorial at the summit of Durie Hill offers excellent views over the
city.
The outlying area is home to the Whanganui National Park, whose magnificent Whanganui River runs through it.
It is the largest navigable river in New Zealand, and its 239 listed
rapids make it popular with kayakers and river rafters. The park also
has a network of walking tracks, which are also excellent for mountain
biking.
With
winter here and snow in abundance keep in mind that
Wanganui is just over an hour from Tongariro National
Park and the Ski-fields on Mount Ruapehu.
Many
people choose Wanganui as a base. It gives you plenty of
things to do on any non skiiing days and will save you on
accommodation!
Useful
Wanganui Links:
To help
plan your Wanganui holiday choose from the main categories below:
For information about Wanganui and the
surrounding area and a list of events occurring in Wanganui,
this week and for the next 12 months:
http://www.wanganui.com/
Another site similar to the one above with
information about Wanganui and what to do here:
http://www.wanganui.co.nz/entertainment/
All about Wanganui and the sort of things
you might do here, while staying at Alma Motel:
http://www.destinationwanganui.com/index.html
A site with a
list of links to websites about things in Wanganui:
http://secondary.kiwipages.co.nz/Regions/Taranaki/Wanganui/
Interested in
bushwalking or looking at the local environment? Here is the
Department of Conservation's page on Wanganui.
http://www.doc.govt.nz/Regional-Info/005~Wanganui/index.asp
Wanganui has a world renowned school of
Computer Graphic Design:
http://www.waikato.ac.nz/learning/bachelors/bcgd.shtml
And a School of Arts that is part of
Wanganui UCOL (Universal college of learning)
http://www.quayschool.ac.nz/
If you are a sports fan or coming here for a sporting event,
or are just interested in sport in Wanganui:
http://www.sportwanganui.org.nz/
See also our Sports Groups page:
http://www.almamotelwanganui.co.nz/SportsGroups.htm
Wanganui's local newspaper online:
http://www.wanganuichronicle.co.nz/
On the internet one of the best way to find out about
Wanganui is of course to use a search engine and type in at
least the word Wanganui and then what interests you.
The site we recommend is:
http://www.google.co.nz
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