Taumarunui
Taumarunui is in Whanganui in a central part of the North Island of New Zealand.
Understand
[edit]Get in
[edit]By train
[edit]- Main article: Rail travel in New Zealand
- 1 Taumarunui railway station. The Northern Explorer has trains three times per week from Auckland or Wellington.
Get around
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Map of Taumarunui
See
[edit]- 1 Taumarunui Art Centre. Community venue which has occasional exhibitions.
Do
[edit]- 1 Whanganui Journey. Taumarunui is the start of a 145 km (90 mi) river journey by canoe to Pipiriki. This is a Great Walk, with DoC campsites and huts, which must be booked in advance during the Great walks Season (October - April). The whole journey normally takes 5 days. You could do the first 22 km to Ohinepane Campsite as a day trip if you arranged to be met there.
- 2 Taumarunui Canoe Hire & Jet Boat Tours, 292 Hikumutu Road. Hires canoes and runs jet boat tours and one way trips from Ohinepane to Taumarunui.
- 3 Taumarunui Golf Club, 165 Golf Road. 18 holes $50.
Buy
[edit]Eat
[edit]Drink
[edit]Sleep
[edit]- 1 Taumarunui Holiday Park. cabins, powered and non-powered pitches in a small park surrounded by 23ha of bush. non-powered pitch $20, cabin from $75.
Connect
[edit]Go next
[edit]- south to National Park Village
- east to Turangi