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Northland & Bay of Islands Travel Guide Auckland Travel Guide Waikato & King Country Travel Guide Coromandel New Zealand Travel Guide Bay of Plenty Travel Guide (Tauranga/Mt Maunganui) Rotorua Travel Guide Eastland Travel Guide Lake Taupo Travel Guide Tongariro National Park Travel Guide Taranaki Travel Guide Wanganui Travel Guide Hawke's Bay Travel Guide Wairarapa Travel Guide Wellington & Kapiti Travel Guide Nelson Travel Guide Marlborough Travel Guide (Picton/Blenheim) Tararua District Travel Guide Hibiscus Coast & Rodney District Travel Guide Hanmer Springs Travel Guide Christchurch,  Kaikoura & Canterbury Travel Guide Kaikoura Travel Guide West Coast Travel Guide Wanaka Travel Guide Oamaru & Waitaki District Travel Guide Queenstown Travel Guide Te Anau Travel Guide Dunedin Travel Guide Invercargill & Southland Travel Guide Stewart Island Travel Guide Mt Cook & Twizel Travel Guide

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If a visitor had just one day to learn about everything New Zealand has to offer, they couldn’t do better than visit Taranaki to discover an alpine and national park wonderland, rolling green fields, a beautiful coast and enough Maori and colonial history to fill a library.

You’ll need more than a day, though, to appreciate everything there is to see, do, and find out in Taranaki. Each of the region’s three districts provides a unique perspective on Taranaki’s past, present and future. And Egmont National Park with Mt Taranaki at its heart is a world unto itself. So explore--There’s so much more to Taranaki than you might think.

For a lot of New Zealanders Taranaki is an unkown, and that has helped to make it a very special place because it retains many of the qualities and attributes that have disappeared from other parts of the country--something international visitors really appreciate.

Taranaki is New Zealand the way it used to be, but with all the trappings of modern day life. We’ve got the good things, like shops, restaurants and cafes, yet somehow they haven’t encroached on our way of life or ruined our rural character.

We have the mountain and the sea, the fabulous outdoors, concerts, events, attractions and activities aplenty, but it’s the peace, solitude and opportunities to take time out in a glorious setting that many visitors enjoy. Come and experience for yourself.

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Windwand at Sunset
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TARANAKI DRIVING TIMES (not including stops)

  • Auckland - New Plymouth ... 4hrs 30mins
  • Waitomo - Mokau ... 1hr 15mins
  • Mokau - New Plymouth ... 1hr
  • New Plymouth - Stratford ... 30mins
  • Stratford -Mt Taranaki ... 15mins
  • Stratford - Hawera ... 30mins
  • Stratford - Taumarunui ... 3hrs
  • Stratford - Whangamomona ... 1hr 30mins
  • New Plymouth - North Egmont ... 30mins
  • New Plymouth - Opunake ... 45mins
  • Opunake - Hawera ... 30mins
  • Hawera - Wanganui ... 1hr
  • Hawera - Wellington ... 3hrs 30mins

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