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Illustration showing New Zealand woodpigeon or kereru perching on a brown branch with small green leaves. Bird has blue-green head, blue-green wing feathers and tail with a patch of red-brown feathers at the shoulder, a white rounded belly, short red-brown beak and red-brown claws on the branch. Background is very light blue at top and light green at bottom.

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Illustration showing New Zealand woodpigeon or kereru perching on a brown branch with small green leaves. Bird has blue-green head, blue-green wing feathers and tail with a patch of red-brown feathers at the shoulder, a white rounded belly, short red-brown beak and red-brown claws on the branch. Background is very light blue at top and light green at bottom.
Waikato Day Tripper

Essential adventures

  • Long surf beach edged with grey sand with green bushes in foreground and coast in the distance
    Slow travel in New Zealand | Essential adventures

    Best things to do in Raglan

  • Waikato river with blue-green water, bushy trees on both banks, in the distance high across the river is a red-brown bridge with two red spiky poles above it.
    Nature and gardens | Essential adventures | Slow travel in New Zealand

    Eight great ways to experience the Waikato River

  • In foreground centre is a bicycle with yellow and blue body and black handlebars and wheels, and the words Clio in large letters on the cycle frame. Behind the bicycle is a row of green and white weed flowers. At left is a glimpse of a river behind bushy plants, and more green bushes on the far side of the river. At right is a bridge across the river with a curved semicircle green frame above the grey-blue bridge. Sky is cloudy blue-grey.
    Nature and gardens | Essential adventures | Slow travel in New Zealand

    Te Awa – riding along the river

  • Round blue-green door with a round window at each side, set in a grassy hill, the front door of Bag End
    Essential adventures

    Essential adventures in the Waikato

  • Geometric sunken beds of brightly coloured flowers including orange, yellow, red and purple, with blue water course running between the gardens. White stucco wall at side and pavilion with four pillars and flat roof at back.
    Nature and gardens | Essential adventures

    Gardens of surprise: What to see at Hamilton Gardens

  • Hobbit holes with doors set into green grassy hills. Red door at right, cottage garden in foreground with orange flowers and green vegetables, bird house on pole, table with produce at front right.
    Essential adventures | Nature and gardens

    Return to The Shire: Two old hobbits visit Hobbiton

Illustration showing New Zealand woodpigeon or kereru perching on a brown branch with small green leaves. Bird has blue-green head, blue-green wing feathers and tail with a patch of red-brown feathers at the shoulder, a white rounded belly, short red-brown beak and red-brown claws on the branch. Background is very light blue at top and light green at bottom.

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Waikato Day Tripper is a travel blog founded by Alice Bulmer in 2025, helping visitors to New Zealand find out about slow travel in the Waikato region of the North Island.

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