Road Tripping To New Plymouth

Last updated on 4 May 2016

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Last weekend a group of us from the college I work at headed down the country to New Plymouth to spend four days there. We were there mainly for the Taranaki Cathedral services on Sunday 2nd of March, as the Cathedral is becoming a part of the Cross of Nails community, which you can read more about here.

From Auckland, it’s about a 6 hour drive, give or take, depending on how many stops you make and the size of your travelling companions bladders. We left Auckland at 9:30am and arrived in New Plymouth at 4:30pm, after making two coffee/lunch stops.

I thought I’d share this adventure in several parts so you’re not overloaded with information, text and images: 1. The Road Trip, there and back; 2. The Taranaki Cathedral; 3. The Zoo and the Park; and 4. New Plymouth itself. But today, the road trip.

New Zealand is beautiful, as I’m sure you know, but it was so nice to be able to drive down a route that I hadn’t been before. I had been to New Plymouth when I was little, but from the Lower North Island end, travelling up, rather than from Auckland, travelling down. It was really neat to be able to see that side of the country and the landscapes, and hills, and, of course, the Tasman Sea.

And those are some of the pictures from the road rip! So much fun! Look out for more posts from this trip in the coming days/week!