FigJam Workshops are based in Thames on the Coromandel and are our latest listing on Women Travel NZ and the World. They run workshops on the Coromandel and have just decided to launch out with a great looking Bali based retreat 12-19 June this year. Who does NOT have a retreat in Bali on their Bucket List? Based at the boutique Sama's Cottages in the heart of Ubud, the … [Read more...]
Bushwise Women is no More. Long Live Womens Holidays!
Bushwise Women was the brain child of Cynthia Roberts and her partner Roz Heinz. They gave up their careers in education and set up this company to take women into the outdoors. They took trips for women into much of New Zealand's South Island back country. They started mostly with day walks and kayaking from their Bushline Lodge on the West Coast, but they quickly … [Read more...]
Art Break – Waihi How it all Began…
Art Break Waihi is a Kiwi beach holiday experience over two days and take time to explore your artistic side. Encouragement and a stimulating environment by the sea help you to tap into your creativity. Waihi is a small settlement under two hours from Auckland on the east Coast. Here is a story of their beginnings... Heather and I became friends through working together … [Read more...]
Banks Peninsula Track
This 35 Km track was one of New Zealand's first private tracks, walked over 2 or 4 days it covers 35 Kms along the coastline of this long extinct volcano near Christchurch in the South Island. Maori arrived on this ancient weathered volcano with fire and adzes, dogs and rats and soon a third of the forest was gone. Early European settlers quickly cleared the rest of the land … [Read more...]
Onuku Farm Hostel – the first night
The Banks Peninsula Track bus picks us all up from outside the Old Post Office, packs are loaded up and we are given an introduction to the tramp before heading off to our first night. On the way we introduce ourselves to the other trampers, and read the booklet about how we are going to spend the next few days. All of us are kiwis, a family of four, a woman and her very fit … [Read more...]
Otanerito Bay and Hinewai – it is our last night on the Banks Peninsula Track
We have arrived for our last night on the Banks Peninsula Track- tonight we are in Otanerito Bay. The walkers have done another relatively short (6km) coastal walk. The latte ladies have been back to Akaroa for, of course, a latte. We have to line up with the hundreds of milling visitors of one of the many cruise ships that visit Akaroa at this time of year. These … [Read more...]
Stony Bay Opatuti – our third night on the Banks Peninsula Track
The walkers have a shorter trip today - 8kms up and down along the coast, past Seal Cove - though every cove has seals on this coast. Arriving at Stony Bay is like we have stepped into a kind of hobbiton - funky small buildings placed in beautiful gardens. There is a pool table with paint pots to catch the balls, two fire baths to relax after the day, a fire pit to gather … [Read more...]
Flea Bay – Pohatu – The Second Night
A 4-6 hour walk from 200m to 699m and back down to sea level is the first day of walking on the Banks Peninsula Track. It is a misty day - so not too hot for walking, but the views are not so expansive over Akaroa harbour, though the cloud lifts enough to see out to the Akaroa Harbour entrance. A lunch shelter at the top of the ridge provides shelter and a gathering point … [Read more...]
Send Rosemary to Kerala
Rosemary Neave is the energy behind Women Travel Blog, and other websites about women and travel. She is a keen blogger and loves to write as she travels. KeralaBlog is an invitation to join a busload of other bloggers in Kerala South India for a week, and she is keen to join in. There is some great new ventures for women travelers in India, many of them run by Indian … [Read more...]
Guides for your Travel on the Silk Road
Silk Road Adventures are based in Greymouth in the South Island of New Zealand, and for years they have been leading tours in every corner of the Silk Road. Recently they have branched out and are supporting self-drive touring arrangements. At one point we had 55 travellers motoring their way accross various parts of Asia on a variety of enterprises in vehicles that were … [Read more...]