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Keep calm and Kerikeri on
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It’s the ultimate chocolate experience - so don’t miss it!
Boutique Chocolate Factory & Chocolate Café A visit to our Boutique Chocolate Factory and Chocolate Café is an experience not to be missed. Watch us make our tantalising confections and taste a few samples - complimentary, of course. Then step into our fully licensed Chocolate Café and relax with a great coffee or sweet pastry. Mmm... whatever your temptation, you’re sure to be tempted, more than once! Kerikeri Road, Kerikeri, Bay Of Islands. Chocolate Factory and Shop open 9.00am - 5.30pm daily. Chocolate Café open 8.30am - 5.00pm daily. Freephone 0800 MAKANA or visit www.makana.co.nz
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Hand-made chocolates and other natural temptations
COME, STAY A WHILE – KERIKERI HAS PLENTY TO KEEP ITS VISITORS HAPPY BUT FIRST, WINE! Hundreds of years ago, Samuel Marsden had an inkling that grape vines would prosper in Aotearoa, and he inkled right. Now a multimillion-dollar industry, Kerikeri is the official birthplace of New Zealand wine and the cellar doors are plentiful. ARTISTS, ARTISTS, EVERYWHERE With its relaxed holiday vibe, many artists have set up home here. Pick up a Kerikeri Art Trail Map and visit galleries and workshops. The talented artists at Keriblue Ceramics will ensure you return home with a boot full of hand-made homewares. FUDGE FOR ALL Keriblue Ceramics is anything but a one trick pony. The studio is also home to ‘Get Fudged’, with 36 flavours to buy. FEATHERY RESIDENTS The Parrot Place is home to 300 exotic birds
including a dancing macaw. Some of these exotic residents are also prone to perching on visitors’ arms, hands and shoulders. MĀORI VILLAGES Rewa’s Village is a replica Māori fishing village representing life before Europeans arrived. You can also enter the Discoverers Garden from here and learn how Māori learnt to use different plants in their day-to-day activities. NEW ZEALAND’S OLDEST BUILDING Established in 1819, the Kerikeri Mission Station was one of the first places where Māori and Europeans lived together. Home to both the Stone Store, built in 1832, and Aotearoa’s oldest building, the preserved Kemp House, it offers a physical peek into the past. Pintsized visitors can partake in the daily Children’s Chores Tour. PAGE 9 - REGIONAL MAP
