{"id":4764,"date":"2022-07-12T00:54:26","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T00:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/?p=4764"},"modified":"2022-07-12T00:54:26","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T00:54:26","slug":"new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/?p=4764","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"

Resurrecting this blog’s travelogue function, herewith some photos of our first trip from Australia, to New Zealand’s North Island. We initially wanted to hire a campervan but eventually decided against it. Instead we went around by rental car and packed the days with highlights for the little one.<\/p>\n

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From Auckland, we started off driving to Rotorua and made a pitstop in Hobbiton, one of the movie sets for the Lord of the Rings series. Not being fans ourselves, it was nonetheless beautiful to see the landscape around there.<\/p>\n

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I had never been on a small plane before so we took a floatplane ride around Rotorua’s many volcanic spots. It is so lush in that part of the world, even in winter.<\/p>\n

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Rotorua is a center of Maori culture. The photo above is the Pohutu Geyser in the Whakarewarewa area.<\/p>\n

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Driving on from Rotorua we spent a few nights on the Coromandel Peninsula on Hahei Beach. Absolute paradise, and hardly any people this time of the year.
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From Hahei, we took a speedboat along the coast to see the rock formations and ocean caves, the most famous of which is Cathedral Cove.<\/p>\n

We will be back. But first some exploring closer to our new home here in Sydney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Resurrecting this blog’s travelogue function, herewith some photos of our first trip from Australia, to New Zealand’s North Island. We initially wanted to hire a campervan but eventually decided against it. Instead we went around by rental car and packed … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4764"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4772,"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4764\/revisions\/4772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}