Explore the Cultural Landscape

VAANA Peace Mural

At a crossroads where those crucial fluids, water and petrol, are stored, Auckland is now also stockpiling artwork.

Truman Track

This 15 minute walk to the sea coast gives access to sea caves, rock pools and marine life. Not a swimming beach.

Motu Manawa - Pollen Island Marine Reserve

From 1880s till the 1950s over 90% of Auckland’s wetlands were drained, so this remaining tidal area is prized by wetland birds. It is one of the few significant wetland bird feeding & breeding grounds in the Waitemata Harbour. Motu ...

Beaumont Millennium Track

This 24-km walking or biking track along the edge of the Clutha River follows part of the original East Bank Track and the Roxburgh railway line. There are picnic spots and interpretation signs noting sites of historical interest along t...

New Zealand Maritime Museum - Hui Te Ananui a Tangaroa

Sited near the Viaduct Basin, the museum celebrates New Zealanders' obsession with the sea and sailing. The museum has a school holiday programme. Harbour cruises are available on vessels from the museum's own heritage fleet. The Blue Wa...

Alexandra Courthouse

In Alexandra, where as much has changed as has stayed the same, the Courthouse has not moved an inch since it was built here, from tradtional stone, in 1878. What has changed is the clientele, this is now named the Courthouse Cafe, so pr...

Punakaiki Blowholes and Pancake Rocks

Limestone formations in touch with the sea give rise to spectacular sights, especially if the wind and tide are favourable. The rocks and blow-holes are a short walk from the main road.

Lodge Maori and the Ravensbourne Post Office

An unusual pairing in a rather regular place. Ravensbourne, where the road and the rail cut through on the waterfront, taking people and things from Dunedin to Port Chalmers and back, lays ownership a very healthy standard portion of mos...

Rangimatariki - Rosebank Park Domain

It’s an island of little tiny cars, sandwiched between a motorway of normal cars, and a river of normal boats.

Learn more with James Littlewood...

Queens Arcade

One abreast, just a tad slow, it gracefully takes you up just one flight, to a quieter level of offices, travel agents, tailors and an unexpected grand piano.

Dunedin Urban Renewal

The industrial and commercial heart of old Dunedin, between the Octagon and the Railway Station, centering on Queens Gardens and Vogel Street, is undergoing intensive process of urban renewal.
Former industrial buildin...

Waikouaiti

One of New Zealand's most colourful early settlers put this village on the map. It has a lovely beach and a lagoon noted for its wildlife.

Mercury Theatre

The Mercury Theatre is an itch that K’Rd simply cannot seem to scratch. A glorious, heritage 500-seat venue in the heart of Auckland’s independent cultural bloc, replete with its own sound system, that is almost never ...