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Fun walk/run/cycle event on Raetihi-Pipiriki Rd at Easter

Fun walk/run/cycle event on Raetihi-Pipiriki Rd at Easter
9 Mar, 2021 04:00 PM
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Former event organiser Lucy Conway wants to do the 18km walk this year and get a medal. Photo / Supplied
Former event organiser Lucy Conway wants to do the 18km walk this year and get a medal. Photo / Supplied
Laurel Stowell is a reporter for the Whanganui Chroniclelaurel.stowell@whanganuichronicle.co.nzWhangaChron
Raetihi is gearing up for its 10th Gutbuster event on the hilly, scenic, historic little road between Raetihi and Pipiriki.
It's on Easter Sunday, April 4, between 9.30am and 2pm, with 18km, 25km and 50km options for walkers, runners and cyclists. This is its 10th year and there will be medals for all competitors, with gifts of local products such as honey, lip balm and Central Plateau vegetables.

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Whanganui Summer Programme: Activities for January 11-17

Whanganui Summer Programme: Activities for January 11-17
10 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
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The Whanganui Summer Programme takes the Whanganui River Rd to Pipiriki on Saturday, January 16. Photo / File
Whanganui Chronicle
The Whanganui Summer Programme offers options to explore the wider region and enjoy new experiences. Most activities can be booked at the Whanganui i-Site Visitor Centre, 31 Taupō Quay - phone 06 349 0508 or 0800 926 426. The programme runs until January 31.
Monday, January 11 - Horowhenua Highlights
Two reasonably short walks. Warm clothing, rain gear. BYO lunch, snacks, drinks. Experience some hidden treasures in Horowhenua. After morning tea in Levin we go walking in nearby Papaitonga Scenic Reserve, an important refuge for birds that depend on the wetlands. Back to visit RJ's sweet factory in Levin, then to picturesque Foxton Beach for a walk along the estuary, home to rare birds. We visit Waireka Honey on the way home. Depart 8am; return about 5pm. Adult $35; child $16.

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Why it's worth making a detour to Whanganui

Best restaurants
One of the best places to eat in town is also Whanganui's best live music venue. Highlights of the menu at Lucky Bar + Kitchen include Scotch fillet steak with smokey babaganoush and cinnamon doughnuts with salted caramel. Maria Lane Eatery has been serving shared plates and cocktails to local acclaim since November 2019. Wednesday nights offer good-value pasta specials.
Must-see sights
Whanganui's reputation as one of New Zealand's most arty cities in enhanced by New Zealand Glassworks (Te Whare Tūhua o Te Ao), with the national centre for glass art offering access to artists' workshops. Exhibitions featuring the country's top glass artists are featured in the gallery, and there's the opportunity to take glass-blowing workshops – book well ahead – or 30-minute "Make a Paperweight" lessons. Art-focused travellers should also explore Sarjeant on the Quay, an innovative space showcasing collections from Whanganui's neoclassical Sarjeant Gallery (scheduled to reopen in 2022).

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Take me to the (Whanganui) River. How this river became a living being

The Whanganui, on New Zealand’s North Island, is the country’s third-longest river. It rises in the snowfields of Tongariro National Park, its streams gushing down the sides of the great volcanoes of Ruapehu, Tongariro and Ngauruhoe. It cuts through deep gorges in Whanganui National Park, before flowing across the plains and farmland and through bush-covered hills to meet the sea at the town of Whanganui.
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Whanganui is a mix between Amsterdam and Napier, yet it's surprisingly off the radar for many holidaymakers.
The Whanganui has been crucial as a path across the landscape since it was first explored by Tamatea, the captain of the Tākitimu canoe, which brought some of the first Polynesian migrants to the island around 1350. The Whanganui iwi (the Māori people of the river) have lived by, travelled on and drawn sustenance from the river ever since. They caught eels in latticework weirs. They descended vine ladders from their villages high above to reach its waters. They had a name for each of its 239 rapids.

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How New Zealand's Whanganui River is legally a person

This river in New Zealand is legally a person. Here's how it happened
Updated 9:43 PM ET, Fri December 11, 2020
Whanganui, New Zealand (CNN)As a child in the 1970s, Gerrard Albert played on the mud flats at the mouth of New Zealand's Whanganui River where raw sewage from the nearby town spilled into the estuary and out to the ocean.
At low tide, he and his playmates would see pieces of toilet paper in the water and joke to one another: "That was the one I did yesterday."
After arriving in New Zealand in the 1800s, British colonialists industrialized Whanganui River, long treasured by generations of Indigenous Māori. The river became polluted by discharge and land clearances and the shingle banks Albert's grandmother remembered from her childhood were replaced with mud so wet you would sink up to your knees, due to gravel extraction.

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