As a deluxe liner operating two 710-passenger cruise ships, Azamara promises adventures for the pampered soul. Access to less-traveled ports of call makes each itinerary an exotic, off-the-beaten-path travel experience. Plus, there is butler service in every stateroom, spa and relaxation amenities, specialty restaurants, and enrichment programs that range from photography to wine tasting.
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Generations of Kiwi kids have giggled over the name ‘Waipu’; the makers of Imodium missed a golden opportunity by failing to adopt it as their product’s brand name for the NZ market. Be that as it may, Waipu and neighbouring Waipu Cove are bonny wee places.
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This village sprawls along a valley that runs northwest from Mandeville in the lee of the forested north face of the Don Figuerero Mountains. The B6 leads northwest from Shooter’s Hill, winding, dipping and rising past lime-green pastures dotted with guango and silk-cotton trees and crisscrossed with stone walls and hedgerows.
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If the colour green had a homeland this would be it. Verdant fields give way to rolling hills in the countryside around New Zealand’s mightiest river, the Waikato. Visitors from southern England might wonder why they bothered leaving home, especially in quaint towns like Cambridge where every effort has been made to replicate the ‘mother country’. It’s little wonder that Peter Jackson chose the Waikato as the bucolic Shire in his movie adaptation of Lord of the Rings.
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The Dolphin Head Mountains rise inland of Moskito Cove and are known for their cascades. The grandest of these are at Mayfield, near Pennycooke, about 16km south of Moskito Cove (6km east of Lucea). Here, a series of 21 falls and pools beckons you to take a refreshing dip in any of the delightful swimming holes, which are shaded by glades of bamboo. You can even swim through a cave.
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Waihi isn’t a complete hole, but it’s in danger of becoming one. This isn’t meant in the derogatory sense. Where most towns have hole-in-the-wall ATMs for people to access their riches, Waihi’s main street has a giant open-cast gold mine. They’ve been dragging gold and silver out of Martha Mine, NZ’s richest, since 1878. The town formed quickly and blinged itself up with grand buildings and a show-offy avenue of phoenix palms, now magnificently mature.
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The capital of Clarendon parish, 58km west of Kingston midway between Spanish Town and Mandeville, is a teeming market and agricultural town. It’s bypassed by the A2 (Sir Alexander Bustamante Hwy), which runs about 1.5km south of town. If you venture into town, expect a degree of pandemonium, especially on Friday and Saturday when the market is held south of the main square. Be prepared for terrible congestion, honking horns and pushy drivers who add to the general mayhem.
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Surf Lessons at an additional cost are available for Guests age 8 and older at Disney’s Typhoon Lagoon Water Park.
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Waiheke is 93 sq km of island bliss only a 35-minute ferry ride from the CBD. Once they could hardly give land away here; nowadays multimillionaires rub shoulders with the old-time hippies and bohemian artists who gave the island its green repute. Auckland office workers fantasise about swapping the daily motorway crawl for a watery commute and a warm, dry microclimate.
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Mavis Bank, around a one-hour drive from Kingston, is a tidy little village in the midst of coffee country.
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