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January 2021
BAYLEYS WHANGANUI VINTAGE WEEKEND 2021
In Whanganui, we begin every year with a big, loud, colourful party! While enjoying an eclectic range of vintage and celebration-themed events, we rejoice in how lucky we are to live in this humming place filled with treasured heritage buildings and framed by a stunning natural environment. We make music and art, we dance, we dress up, we travel in style. All the locals come out and we invite the neighbours to come over - there’s simply no better time…
Find out more »Mainstreet Caboodle
Caboodle is the biggest day of the Vintage Weekend Festivities. Caboodle takes over the town centre for over 14 hours in the town centre – encompassing entertainment, food, fashion, flea market and cars all in a vintage themed extravaganza. Caboodle brings live entertainment – music & fashion shows via 3 stages, street performers throughout the Mainstreet, a family zone, vintage / classic vehicles line the street, street food vendors, steampunk enthusiast’s, vintage market and so much more. The evening comes…
Find out more »February 2021
Virus Buster Run: Ohakune
Powderhorn Hotel is offering a special deal for the Virus Buster Run: Single, double or twin occupancy rooms and full continental and cooked breakfast buffet for $220. Planet Chopper is proud to present the Virus Buster Run 2021. The ride goes from Auckland to The Burt Munro Challenge and back again over 12 days. We have pre-selected bars in each town for riders to meet at the end of each day. There is live music organised where possible and raffle…
Find out more »Waimarino A & P Show
Celebrating Rural New Zealand - Home to one of New Zealand’s oldest grandstands and with Mt Ruapehu as a stunning backdrop, the historic town of Raetihi hosts the annual Waimarino Agricultural & Pastoral Show on the third weekend of February each year. The next event will be on Saturday 20th February 2021 with an extra day of equestrian events held on Sunday 21st. Join us in Ruapehu for a day celebrating rural New Zealand. There will be horse events, trade…
Find out more »The Goat
Pre COVID-19 we had been re-evaluating the traditional date that we have used for 16 years: the first weekend of December. This is due to challenges with adverse weather in the last two iterations of the event. Whilst we fully understand that the event takes place in a changeable alpine environment, ultimately we are in the business of delivering sustainable, memorable event experiences for our ever-faithful Goats. There are more stable times for weather in the Tongariro National Park and…
Find out more »March 2021
Weekend Landscape Photography Workshop
Join Ken Wright (and an additional tutor) for a weekend landscape photography workshop in the awe-inspiring location of Tongariro National Park to improve your landscape photography. Over this two day workshop (Friday evening to Sunday afternoon/evening) you will learn to shoot a diverse range of subjects including classic landscape, mountain, waterfall and forest photography. During the weekend you will get to shoot from sunrise to sunset, in a variety of locations within the national park. Price includes: - 2 nights…
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