Climbing Paritutu Rock, New Plymouth - New Zealand's Biggest Gap Year – BackpackerGuide.NZ
Day 47: Today we are climbing Paritutu Rock in New Plymouth and checking out some of New Plymouth’s beaches. It’s our activity of the day in 365 Days: 365 Activities!
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We are in New Plymouth, Taranaki in the beautiful Ducks & Drakes Backpackers ready for another Taranaki activity today! We head to the other side of New Plymouth city to a place called Paritutu Rock.
It’s a short but super steep climb up Paritutu Rock in New Plymouth which rewards with views of the Sugar Loaf Island, which we kayaked to the other day , the city of New Plymouth and Mt Taranaki. We also notice a gorgeous beach below Paritutu Rock so we make that our next stop.
We walk down to Back Beach in New Plymouth to have some lunch, run down sand dunes and stroll along the beach.
So what do you think of Paritutu Rock? Would you put it on your New Plymouth itinerary? Let us know in the comments below!
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Veiw from the top and part of the climb down on the chain, my brother hates heights!!
Paritutu Rock, New Plymouth
THE CLIMB UP Paritutu rock New Plymouth
Hi everyone i made the climb to the top with one of my brothers, this is worth the climb up it gets steep half way but keep pushing and you'll see the beauty that surrounds it.
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New Plymouth Young Men - Paritutu Rock & Oakura Bridge
Youngs mens activity climbing up Paritutu Rock and then jumping off Oakura Bridge - Nov 2015
Paritutu Rock New Plymouth
View from Paritutu Rock in New Plymouth
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When Mike and I were in New Plymouth, New Zealand his brother took us to Paritutu Rock.
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Paritutu Rock | New Plymouth
12.1.20. Difficult to keep camera pointed upwards while clinging to the rock.
On top of Paritutu rock New Plymouth NZ
Climbing Paritutu rock, New Plymouth
This would have been sometime in the early 1990s.
Paritutu, New Plymouth, New Zealand 2017
Some great surfing in New Plymouth Easter Sudday 2017,
Paritutu Rock overlooking New Plymouth at Sunset
Shortly after moving to New Plymouth, NZ we climbed Paritutu Rock for Family Home Evening.
New Plymouth - NEW ZEALAND
New Plymouth
New Plymouth (Māori: Ngāmotu) is the major city of the Taranaki Region on the west coast of the North Island of New Zealand. It is named after the English city of Plymouth from where the first English settlers migrated. The New Plymouth District includes New Plymouth City and several smaller towns. The New Plymouth District is the 10th largest district (out of 67) in New Zealand, and has 1.7 percent of New Zealand's population.[1] The district has a population of 74,184 – about two-thirds of the total population of the Taranaki Region. This includes New Plymouth City (57,500), Waitara (6,483), Inglewood (3,380), Oakura (1,359), Okato (561) and Urenui (429).[2]
The city itself is a service centre for the region's principal economic activities including intensive pastoral activities (mainly dairy farming) as well as oil, natural gas and petrochemical exploration and production. It is also the region's financial centre as the home of the TSB Bank (formerly the Taranaki Savings Bank), the largest of the remaining non-government New Zealand-owned banks.
Notable features are the botanic gardens (i.e. Pukekura Park), the critically acclaimed Len Lye Centre and Art Gallery, the 11 km (6.8 mi) Coastal Walkway alongside the Tasman Sea, the Len Lye-designed 45-metre-tall (148 ft) artwork known as the Wind Wand, Paritutu Rock, and views of Mount Taranaki/Egmont.
As described under awards, New Plymouth won multiple awards in 2008. The city was in 2010 chosen as one of two walking & cycling Model Communities by the government. Based on New Plymouth's already positive attitude towards cyclists and pedestrians, the city received $3.71m to invest into infrastructure and community programs to boost walking and cycling.[3]
It is also noted for being a coastal city with a mountain within 30 minutes drive, where residents and visitors to New Plymouth can snowboard, ski, water ski and surf all in the same day.
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Paritutu Rock
A short 15 minute hike up to the top of Paritutu Rock in New Plymouth, New Zealand. In the video we spot some dolphins...it actually turned out that they were a pod of orcas!
View at the top of Paritutu Rock in New Plymouth, NZ. 2005
Takes about 15 mins to climb
Mt. Paratutu New Plymouth, New Zealand
Nicole and Jordan's walk up Paritutu Rock New Plymouth 27th December 2016
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Look to the east of New Plymouth and you will see the towering monolith of Paritutu, standing tall with the tide licking her toes. She's exactly as her name suggests - pari-tutu.
At 153m, she is the tallest and most awesome part of the rim of an old volcano, much older than our mountain, Taranaki. She stands sentry at our port, next to the Sugar Loaf Islands: Motu-o-tamatea (Snapper Rock), Motumahanga (Saddle Back), Pakaraki (Seagull Rock), Mataora (Round Rock), Wareumu (Lion Rock), Moturoa and Mikotahi.
There were once two more Sugarloaf Islands at Paritutu's feet, carrying the single name of Fishing Rock. They sat where the power station is today. These two lumps, 40m and 44m high respectively, were quarried into extinction to build the long concrete wharf that now stretches into the sea.
If some of New Plymouth's founding fathers had had their way, it would have been Paritutu who was sacrificed for the sake of a safe harbour after a plot was hatched to blow her to bits and use her innards for fill.