Happy Ewe Bike Tours Rotorua Tales From A Crazy Volcano Town
Tales From Rotorua - A Crazy Volcano Town
Happy Ewe Cycle Tours provide a guided bicycle adventure around central Rotorua. you'll ride at your own leisurely pace to 27 key historical, geothermal and cultural sights
A Taste of Rotorua
NZ HOLIDAY - PART 10 - A TASTE OF ROTORUA
A few snippets of our first day in Rotorua! The Sulpher flats smell like rotten eggs, but the steam rising off the water and out of the ground is amazing!
New Zealand, sheep farm
Daf's Uncle and Aunt's sheep farm, just noth og Wellington, near Masterton in New Zealand's North Island
MTB Rotorua Summit Cycles March 2017
We've just finished another superb MTB tour in Rotorua.
These tours are fully catered, we take care of everything once you land. Great accommodation, ride leaders, laundry, all breakfasts and dinners, two days of private shuttles, gondola runs and a room for our riders which is full of snacks, cold drinks and a few beers.
We organise these tours so that you the rider can enjoy the amazing trails which are on offer in New Zealand.
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Agrodome, Rotorua
Shot with the Toshiba Camileo X-Sports
Music by Late Night Alumni
Loving New Zealand - The South Island
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★★★ NOTE: Tai and I are no longer together. We split up in Sep 2016.
Kia Ora! Loving New Zealand is a short series of adventures about me and my partner having good times around Aotearoa (New Zealand). This is the first part: The South Island. Everything in this video happened between 2011 and 2012.
A special thanks for everyone we've met in New Zealand. And for everything we have lived and learnt from this amazing country.
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De Hamilton para Tauranga
Eu (Teo) e a Quel voltando de Hamilton,ai então resolvemos fazer uma filmagem da estrada da Nova Zelândia.Aqui todas as estradas são bem sinalizadas,ótimo asfalto,e não tem estrada privatizada isso que é o bacana,tem um pedágio que quando chegamos a Tauranga,mas é de $1 dólar nz,...não é nada esse valor.divirtam-se
Pukerangiora Pā Historic Reserve (1821-22)
I went for a little tiki tour on my bike today and I came across this well known historic site.
Pukerangiora Pā Historic Reserve (1821-22)
A palimpsest etched in blood
Although we think of the First World War as our most costly in terms of human life, the Germans and the Turks spilled less New Zealand blood than the ‘New Zealanders’, as the British called the Māori, did fighting each other in the Musket Wars of the early 1800s. Historian James Belich accuses us of indulging in ‘historical amnesia’ over the New Zealand Wars. In fact we lobotomised ourselves to erase this earlier conflict, which covered more territory, caused more cultural disruption and claimed many more lives than the later wars. Yet ignore it we do. The fiercest fighting took place between 1818 and 1836. Body counts are hazy. The Oxford companion to New Zealand military history says that ‘between 20,000 and 30,000 may have died either in battle or of disease (with one estimate putting the mortality as high as 80,000)’ – about 20% of the estimated Māori population, even at the lower end of the range. While some historians question the accuracy of the ‘musket’ part of the wars’ name, it appears to have stuck.
The name Pukerangiora now covers several sites and a lot of military history. It was besieged twice during the Musket Wars. In 1821 a taua led by Tūkorehu of Ngāti Maniapoto was besieged here for seven months by Te Ātiawa, who surrounded it with earthworks and palisading, adding insult to injury by dubbing the siege ‘Raihe Poaka’ (the penned-up pigs). Blood flowed here again a decade later. Te Ātiawa, weakened by recent emigration to join Te Rauparaha in the Cook Strait area, holed up at Pukerangiora after a large Waikato taua descended on North Taranaki. When the pā fell after a three-month siege, as many as 1200 may have died.
Ironically, Pukerangiora is probably better known for its role in the First (1860-61) and Second (1863-66) Taranaki Wars. The first was the major fight. After their defeat at Puketakauere government forces generally avoided pā, which they knew were there to lure them into attacking, but as the campaign ground on they decided to destroy Te Ātiawa strongholds south of the Waitara. In ‘Pratt’s Sap’, forces under Major-General T.S. Pratt tunnelled laboriously up the slopes towards a new pā, Te Arei (‘the barrier’), erected in front of freshly strengthened Pukerangiora. Te Ātiawa chief Hapurona commanded both. Pratt built eight redoubts and dug two stretches of sap (covered trench). Maori counter-attacked, most famously against number three redoubt on the night of 23 January, suffering heavy casualties in the crossfire between the redoubts. Working under cover of large sap rollers and supported by artillery fire, the British advanced. By March 1861 number eight redoubt was just 75 m from Te Arei pā, which was taking a heavy pounding. Hapurona wisely sought a truce. In a ‘settlement’ disliked by both sides, the Waikato and southern Taranaki tribes withdrew. An uneasy peace descended on Taranaki.
The Second Taranaki War was a sideshow to the Waikato campaign, but Te Arei was briefly again the site of conflict. On 11 October 1864, under cover of thick fog, Colonel H.J. Warre took it. Shots were fired but the defenders quickly withdrew. A redoubt was built quickly but abandoned about three years later. A blockhouse relocated to the other side of the road in 1869 was manned for about a year. Since then sheep have grazed the site. Cultivation destroyed about a third of Pukerangiora but since 1910 the rest has been a Crown reserve, now managed by DOC.
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Atiu Regional Park & Parakai Hot Springs | Auckland Day Trips | New Zealand
This is the first video of Auckland Day Trips Vlog series. We visited Atiu Regional Park which is about 1 hour and 45 minutes drive from Auckland. The road is scenic all the way, so you would not get bored a second while driving. There are plenty of walking or cycling tracks in the regional park. Views are amazing. On our way back we soaked ourselves in Parakai Hot Water springs (50 minutes drive from Auckland).
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Coromandel Loop with Samuriders!
What an epic trip! Two days BOP / Coromandel with Samuriders and their mate Alex. Can't wait to do it again!
Route was Day 1: Auckland - Rotorua - Tauranga - Waihi Beach, Day 2: Waihi Beach - Whangamata for brekky then Coromandel Town for lunch and Kopu for after ride drinks then home.
Bike: Suzuki GSX-S1000A 2015
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NEW ZEALAND GODDESS// Lake Ohau
The FINAL New Zealand Contiki Vlog! A trip to the Cadbury Chocolate Factory, and Lake Ohau.
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HitchBiker Full Swearing Version
Full edited version of all of my bmx clips from november 2012-april 2013
HitchBiker Full Hitch Biker Full version Bmx Freestyle New Zealand Blamo Blammo Tauranga Te kuiti Rotorua Taupo Stratford New plymouth Barspins crankflips flip fails Dialled indoor skatepark flatland Dirt street park
Matt & Jaime on their Excellent New Zealand Adventure #3
Matt & Jaime go Bungy on their excellent New Zealand adventure.