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PO box 10233
christchurch
new zealand
tel:+64-3-3796897
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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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cape reinga and the far north

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

Cape Reinga is a place of great spiritual signicance to Maori. They believe it is the place of the leaping, where the souls of the dead gather before they enter the next world. According to Maori traditions the spirits of the departed leap from an 800-year-old pohutukawa tree on the windswept cape to begin the voyage back to their final resting place in the ancestral homeland of Hawaiki.

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day one: cape reinga and the far north

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The site of the legendary money tree, where early settlers travelling north left an offering to ward off evil spirits, is reached via a route further south.

A trip to the cape is not complete without travelling one-way via Ninety Mile Beach’s sand highway, entering or exiting on Te Paki Stream. This magnicent beach arches in an unbroken stretch of white sand for some 103 km (64 miles). The European name is something of a misnomer, its length possibly having been originally recorded in kilometres from Ahipara. Shells from the rare toheroa, a type of clam that grows to 150 mm in length, are often found by beachcombers, while its smaller (and more plentiful) cousin the tuatua is gathered by locals and minced to make delicious tuatua fritters and nourishing soup. The beach is flanked by the Aupouri Forest, and here wild horses roam. Some folks believe these fine-looking horses are the progeny of thoroughbreds that escaped a ship wrecked off nearby Cape Maria Van Diemen.

On the east coast a white sand dune containing some of the world’s purest silica marks the entrance to Parengarenga Harbour. Godwits gather here in early March and, when the dune is almost black with their sheer numbers, they take off on their annual migration to Siberia and Alaska.

The old gumdigging town of Houhora hosts a legendary annual hunt: locals compete to catch one pig, one duck, one pheasant, one trevally and one snapper -all on the same day! The Houhora Tavern housed inside an old woolshed is a good venue to meet hardy northlanders, while the Subritsky Homestead, built in 1860 from local materials and plastered with a powdered seashell paste, provides a fascinating glimpse into the past...

please click the link to download the full Cape Reinga scenic drive, courtesy of apex car rentals new zealand... the kiwi way

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