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154 Reviews Update 26 November 2011 Having lost his stage - Cathedral Square - in the February earthquake, the Wizard had been out of action for many months. But now this Christchurch icon has regained his...
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7 Reviews This is Christchurch’s and – nearly logical – the South Island’s biggest shopping mall. You have a choice of 150 shops, and especially if you are looking for shoes this is the place to go. Sometimes I...
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International Antarctic Centre
24 Reviews A very realistic glimpse of life in the Antarctic region can be experienced at the very popular Antarctic Centre which is touted as the gateway to Antarctica. The museum cum amusement park of sorts...
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The Christchurch botanical gardens
37 Reviews When you walk under the majestic trees and huge shrubs of the Botanic Garden you get an idea that they must be very old. In fact they have been founded in 1863. Wetlands and sand dunes have been...
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10 Reviews Make sure you bring plenty of warm clothing in our colder months of May through September. These months tend to be wetter than usual and often include a cold southerly wind which will make the...
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29 Reviews - PUBLIC TRANSPORT - new Central Station since 25 Oct 2011 Bus service had become veeeery time-consuming, not just because of traffic jams but because we lost the central Bus Exchange (in the Red...
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18 Reviews Gethsemane Gardens If you would like to visit a wildly romantic garden with a Christian theme, then this is it! St. Cecilia Chapel is an enchanting little trellis structure in the heart of Gethsemane...
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29 Reviews - The city centre features a huge new steel sculpture, an oversized bunch of wheat, higher than the surrounding high-rise buildings. Its name is "Flour Power". (August/September 2008) The square at...
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17 Reviews - Update 27 April 2011 - and update of the update 17 January 2012 AIR ASIA FLIGHTS TO CHRISTCHURCH Kuala Lumpur-based budget airline Air Asia has been flying to Christchurch since 1 April 2011....
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23 Reviews - This impressive stately building with its classical ornamentation is located right behind Christchurch Cathedral, and opposite the Press buidling and Cathedral Junction. It was designed in 1909 (and...
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Copthorne Hotel Commodore Christchurch Airport
6 Reviews and 289 Opinions Prior to the earthquakes, I have always stayed in town at some renowned hotel chains. When I was...
3 Reviews and 63 Opinions Booked an ocean front room and it was outstanding. Fully equipped kithchen waith a clothes washers...
4 Reviews You won't miss Castle Hill. About an hour out from Christchurch, along a fairly straight stretch of road, the weird rock formations of Castle Hill attract a more or less permanent huddle of...
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6 Reviews I found this sign (I collect photos of funny or interesting signs from around the world) in the Parking lot of Arthurs' Pass, where our cruise bus was parked for our excursion into the mountains. It...
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A lady named Gwen Dempster-Schouten has hand-raised orphaned wallabies since 1977 but only in October 1999 she opened her wallaby park, named EnkleDooVery...
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Q: I'm working on a novel. The main character lives in Purau and works on Mt. Evans. Anyone want to fill me in on local customs,...
A: Google Banks Peninsula and you may find something. If you use www.google.co.nz you can select New Zealand sites only. It's very small town. Another keyword would be...
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I have met many tourists who have not seen a lot more of Christchurch than the airport, not knowing that there is a lot to explore in the city itself, and that you can make fantastic day trips or...
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According to Maori oral tradition early moa hunting tribes were in Canterbury about 1500 years ago. Some time after this the Waitaha people migrated from the east coast of the North Island to Pegasus...
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Canterbury is a province on the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand. The Canterbury Plains, as the province is also known, stretch from the Conway River in the north, just south of Kaikoura,...
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Canterbury - Home of the Crusaders
Canterbury was our first taste of the South Island. It is the home to wonderful cities like Christchurch, Akaroa and Twizel, as well as two of the most beautiful National Parks, Arthur's Pass and...
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Canterbury - one of the main regions of NZ
Canterbury is one of the most proud and patriotic regions of New Zealand. When it comes to rugby and lamb, Canterbury comes to mind! Canterbury lamb meat is exported to the other side of the world,......
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