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apex car rentals new zealand
PO box 10233
christchurch
new zealand
tel:+64-3-3796897
fax:+64-3-3792647
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New Zealand Car Hire Made Easy!

Apex Car Rentals has branches conveniently located throughout New Zealand. If you would like to talk directly with any of our rental car branch managers please use the number listed below. If you are calling from outside New Zealand please use the "click to talk" feature or call +64-3-379-6897

For auckland car hire call
Ian Berrington 0800-737-009

For christchurch rental cars call
Jeff Kerkhoffs 0800-10-50-55

For wellington car rental call
Adrie Kruiniger 0800 300-110

For picton rental cars call
Adam Rennick 0800 422-744

For queenstown car hire call
Dan Gerard 0800 53-11-11

For nelson rental cars call
Dave Thorn 0800 939-777

For greymouth car rentals call
Neil Richards 0800 93-95-97

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the tongagiro track

..walking the tongagiro track
This amazing walk encircles Mount Ngauruhoe, an active volcano in Tongariro National Park. You’ll see craters, explosion pits, lava flows and more Hiking around an active volcano would have to be one of life’s most memorable experiences. And if you decide to climb to the summit, the feeling of achievement is even more uplifting. The Tongariro Northern Circuit encircles the cone of Mount Ngauruhoe - the most perfectly-shaped volcanic cone within the Tongariro National Park. Although it’s resting at the moment, this mountain is New Zealand's most active volcano with 61 eruptions since 1839. Walked in its entirety, the track is 41 kilometres long and takes three to four days. However the first day follows the famous Tongariro Alpine Crossing, which is probably New Zealand’s best-known day hike. So if you don’t have time to do the full circuit, you can opt to do a single day.

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akaroa and banks peninsula

...take the scenic route with apex car rentals. sample extract from "new zealand driving holiday" guidebook.

A scenic one and a half hour’s drive from Christchurch leads to Akaroa on the Banks Peninsula, a quaint town steeped in European history with more than a touch of French charm. Captain James Cook and the crew aboard the Endeavour were the first Europeans to sight the peninsula in February 1770. Cook, deceived by the peninsula’s lowlying marshes and high headlands, mistakenly recorded it as Banks Island after his botanist Joseph Banks. It wasn’t until some 40 years later, when a mariner sought a non-existent sea passage, that the mistake was discovered and charts were corrected.

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day one: akaroa

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During the early 1800s flax traders and sealers made irregular visits to the peninsula and in the mid 1830s whalers established several land stations around its southern shores. Local forests also provided a source of income and several timber mills opened to supply wood for the buildings of Christchurch.

It wasn’t until April 1850 however that the first British settlers arrived aboard the SS Monarch. From this point onwards the township of Akaroa was established with the French located at the north end of the beach and the British at the south end. A small bay divided the settlements.

Today evidence of the town’s Gallic past remains in many of the street signs and historic buildings. Keen historians will find much of the town’s varied and colourful history on display at the Akaroa Museum. There are Maori taonga (treasures), relics from its whaling past, and the museum incorporates several historical buildings including the Customs House at Daly’s Wharf, the old courthouse, and the Langlois-Eteveneaux House, built in the early 1840s and one of the oldest houses in the South Island. A 20-minute audio-visual relates the complete history of the town.

The Akaroa Historic Area Walk also provides an insight into Akaroa’s history, following the town’s narrow winding streets past old colonial cottages, churches and other mid-nineteenth century buildings which reflect the influence of the early French and British settlers. Guide booklets detailing the walk are available at the museum or from the Akaroa Information Centre.

Alternatively Akaroa’s ambience can be soaked up while relaxing at one of its many seaside cafes overlooking the deep, still waters of the harbour. Here all sorts of fishing, pleasure and charter boats travel to and fro on the changing tide. Fresh catch of the day can be sampled at these tables by the sea as can some of the excellent local Akaroa wine...

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If you would like to purchase a copy of this stunning nz pictorial guidebook online please click here (RRP $24.95 plus postage)

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