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Wellington Travel Guide: 590 reviews and 1,255 photos
Wellington is New Zealand's capital city, with a population of around 300,000 people.
Because it's so hilly and houses and streets are dotted all over it, land is at a premium, and many residents have to live out of the city some distance away on flatter ground, at Upper and Lower Hutt.
Here is the place where you get the best view of the city: the top of Mt Victoria.
The drive to the top, along narrow residential streets, is so steep I wonder how some old cars can actually make it!
- Pros:Very brightly coloured, clean and green
- Cons:When it's Windy, it's REALLY windy. 120 km hr winds not unheard of
- In a nutshell:A windy but attractive city nevertheless
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Karori - Try and spot the birds
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It's a great (fenced) conservation park and I really like what they've done, but because it's 'open air' and very... more travel advice
Fairly comfortable at the Comfort Hotel
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We thought this hotel looked familiar....in fact, we stayed here in 2004 when it was the Chancellor (and a little bit... more travel advice
Seatoun
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While we were in Seatoun searching uselessly for the Lord of the Rings Cafe, we were almost right on the beach when we... more travel advice
Drive to Seatoun
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We read in the Lord of the Rings location guide book in a shop that Seatoun, a little suburb of Wellington just around... more travel advice
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Hi Kate, sorry to hear you didn't find Chocolate Fish you were ever so close as it just further around the bay from Seatoun - at Scorching Bay. Hope you had fun anyway.
Hi Kate, that first pic on your Wellington Page reminds me a bit of Monaco...it is a little similar from the landscape, ins't it? Anyway, great start!