Return on a Sunday at 4:45pm with a Whanganui to Auckland flight arriving at 5:45pm or make the most of the day and head back to Auckland on the 6:45am departure Monday morning from the Whanganui Airport. You can fly from Auckland to Whanganui at 6:20pm on a Friday evening and arrive at 7:20pm. Other heritage attractions are the Waimarie Paddle Steamer, the Wairua Motor Vessel, Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui Regional Museum, St Paul’s Memorial Church at Putiki and historic Royal Wanganui Opera House. Right next to the elevator tower is the fantastic War Memorial Tower, which, when climbed, will offer an even more amazing vista of the city!
It is New Zealand’s only public underground elevator and unique in the southern hemisphere!Ī pedestrian tunnel leads to the elevator and at the top the panoramic views of the Tasman Sea, Mount Ruapehu and Mount Taranaki are amazing. The Durie Hill Elevator is Sixty-six metres high and was built in 1919.
Ĭoupled with a rich Māori history of settlement and trade, Whanganui also has many stories of early European settlement and places benefacted for the beauty and growth of the city today. In March 2017 it became the world's second natural resource to be given its own legal identity, with the rights, duties and liabilities of a legal person. It is the country's third-longest river, and the longest navigable river with special status owing to its importance to the region's Māori people. Te Awa o Whanganui (the Whanganui River) is a major river in the North Island of New Zealand. It’s easy to enjoy walking along Victoria Street, stopping in at cafés and independent retail outlets before heading along the Whanganui River’s walkway. Named New Zealand’s Most Beautiful Small City in 2020. With the inaugural Whanganui Heritage Month launched in August 2019, there are a number of wonderful heritage attractions set in and around the town and riverfront. It’s a quick and easy flight taking only an hour and Air Chathams provides the fastest direct route from Auckland to Whanganui. Surrounded by mountains and native forest, Whanganui is big enough to draw crowds and small enough to be intimate.Īir Chathams flies from Auckland to Whanganui 3 times a day Monday to Friday, once on a Saturday and twice on a Sunday. Visit the city of Whanganui and see the resurgence of heritage, arts, culture and innovation.
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