Destination-Christchurch, NZ in 2025

Click for the HISTORY between Christchurch - TURANGA - Gisborne

Click > 'BLOG' and Links to places to go, things to see, in Otautahi Christchurch, Canterbury, NZ

Experience and enjoy the early stories of Canterbury's Ngāi Tahu Iwi and the earliest European settlers. The positive things they achieved building the city of Christchurch together.

Māori and early settlers collaborated regularly to transport trading goods & equipment up & down the Ōtākaro Avon River.

Waka have been paddled on the Ōtākaro Avon River as far back as the 17th century.

Tourism & Travel
Travel	Air NZ	Christchurch	Museum
Classic Motel	Rental Cars	MotorHomes	Motor Lodge
Arts Centre	Cathedral	Chch Trams	Ch Town Hall
Ferrymead	Waimakiriri	Action-KARTS	Christchurch
FlipsTumbles	Gondolla	Int.Antarctic	JC2033
Jurassic TRex	Library	Orana Park	Playgrounds
Punting	Riccarton H+B	Steam Scene	TK Stadium
DESTINATION	Waka Kotane	Willowbank	ZipLine
Cycle Trails	Native+Aviary	Online Links
Dining & Takeaways
Riccarton	Mairehau	Ferrymead	Ferrymead
Gelato Lab	Riccarton	Tram Dining
Retail & Business
Audiology	Bartercard	Bayleys	CARS
Apparel	Bartercard	Casebrook	Fantail TV
Physiotherapy	Insurance	Shoe Clinic	Victoria
Accounts Online		Flips & Tumbles	World Travellers

Christchurch Airport chief executive Justin Watson, has been quoted  (RNZ)  predicting bumper Winter and Summer seasons for Christchurch city as it has re-established itself. 

Once again being a key travel destination, signalling that the city is no longer just a gateway to the rest of the South Island of New Zealand.

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Destination-Gisborne
Accommodation			AirBnB
Whanarua Bay, East Cape, New Zealand
East Cape New Zealand			Highway 35
Highway 35 - East Cape, New Zealand
Explore The East Cape			Booklet
. . . Opotiki - East Cape - Gisborne and beyond . . .
Destination Gisborne			Links
Wide selection of businesses & organisations
NZ Pocket Guide			Gisborne
Wide selection of things to do places to go

Destination-Christchurch LINKS 

  Airforce Museum of NZ

  AirNZ - Arrivals & Departures

 Christchurch Airport NZ

 Bartercard

 Casebrook Christchurch 

 Christchurch Trams

 Cardboard Cathedral 

 Ferrymead

 Gondolla

 International Antarctic Centre

 Julia Ashmore-Smith: Bayleys

  Jurassic Adventure / Mini-Golf

 Orana Wildlife Park

 Punting on the Avon River

  RNZ: Destination Christchurch

 Te Kaha Stadium 

 The Gelato Lab

 Tramway Restaurant

 Turanga Library

 Specsavers Audiology

 Steam Scene

 Victoria Henstock: City Cllr.

 Waka KoTane

 Willowbank Wildlife Reserve

  Zipline Christchurch

HISTORY: 

Ngāti Porou >> Destination Gisborne  . . and

Ngāi Tahu >> Destination Christchurch  . .  via 'TURANGA'

Ngāti Porou  -  Whangara

Is a small community in the northeast of New Zealand's North Island, located between Gisborne and Tolaga Bay, on State Highway 35.

The settlement features prominently in the early history of the Ngāti Porou Iwi, as the site where Tamatea, captain of the Tākitimu canoe settled on arriving in New Zealand.

( Whangara was the location and setting for Witi Ihimaera's novel The Whale Rider and its film adaptation. )

The local Whāngārā Marae is a meeting place for the Ngāti Porou hapū of Ngāti Konohi. It includes a wharenui, known as Whitirēia or Waho Te Rangi.

Tūranga is the name of a settlement located on the East Coast of the North Island. It is the homeland of the Ngāi Tahu ancestor, Paikea, who made his way there on the back of a whale from the ancient homeland of Hawaiki.

The whale became the rock, Whāngārā Island, with its distinctive ‘whale’ shape. A whale also features on the gable of the furthermost red-roofed building, the wharenui (meeting house) Whitirēia.

Paikea had two sons, Whatiua Te Ramarama and Tahu Pōtiki. Whatiua Te Ramarama and his wife Hemo had three children. The eldest child Porouraki, is the founding ancestor of East Coast iwi Ngāti Porou.

Whatiua Te Ramarama died and so Tahu Pōtiki, the brother took Hemo as his wife. They also had three children. Ngāi Tahu descend from the union of Tahu Pōtiki and Hemo.

Ngāi Tahu  -  Christchurch

Ngāi Tahu's relationship to the people of Ngāti Porou and Tūranga is found in the saying, 'Tokotoru a te tuakana, tokotoru a te taina, ko ngā tokoono ēnei a Hemo i noho ai i Tūranga', meaning 'Hemo the mother of Ngāti Porou and Ngāi Tahu - all who came from Tūranga'.

This name also has significance for the NEW 'TURANGA Library' building’s location at the north-east corner of Cathedral Square in Christchurch.

The name given to the Square is Whiti-reia, and as the narrative written by Dr Te Maire Tau discusses, Whiti-reia is the name of the land on which St Stephen’s Church at Tuahiwi sits; it was also the name given to the Vicarage and to a garden and spring nearby at Tuahiwi. The name of Paikea’s whare (house) was also Whiti-reia.