Tiki Touring New Zealand Travel
One Tree Hill in Auckland

Visit Tiki Touring for the best ideas of where to stay and what to do in New Zealand

 
- Visitor Information -
Map of New Zealand
Currency Converter
Car Hire
Distances Between Cities
City & Street Maps
Inter City Coachlines
City-by-city Events
City Hotel Search
City-by-city Hotels
Where to Eat Guide
Latest Tour Deals
NZ Duty Free
- Major NZ Cities -
Auckland
Where to Stay
What to Do
AA Map of Auckland
Street Maps
Transport Journey Planner
(Bus and train timetables)
Inter City Bus Timetables
Climb Auckland Harbour Bridge
Latest Tour Deals
Auckland Airport
Flight information
Wellington
Wellington Suggestions
Wellington Sights & Events
Wellington Hotels
Christchurch
Christchurch Suggestions
Christchurch Sights & Events
Christchurch Hotels
Dunedin
Dunedin Suggestions
Dunedin Hotels
Dunedin Tours
 
- Regions of NZ -
Bay of Plenty
Rotorua Suggestions
Rotorua Sights & Events
Rotorua Hotels
Tauranga Sights and Events
Tauranga Suggestions
Tauranga Hotels
Mt Maunganui Suggestions
Mt Maunganui Hotels
Canterbury
Akaroa Tours
Kaikoura Hotels
Coromandel
Coromandel Suggestions
Coromandel Hotels
Thames Hotels
Hawke's Bay
Hastings Hotels
Hastings Tours
Napier Hotels
Napier Suggestions
Napier Tours
Manawatu
Palmerston North Hotels
Marlborough
Blenheim Hotels
Blenheim Tours
Nelson Hotels
Nelson Tours
Picton Hotels
Picton Tours
North of Auckland
Bay of Islands Ideas
Bay of Islands Hotels
Bay of Islands Tours
Russell Tours
Paihia Tours
Whangarei Hotels
Far North Hotels
Otago
Arrowtown Hotels
Cromwell Hotels
Fox Glacier Hotels
Fox Glacier Tours
Franz Josef Hotels
Franz Josef Tours
Queenstown Suggestions
Queenstown Hotels
Queenstown Tours
Te Anau Hotels
Te Anau Tours
Wanaka Hotels
Wanaka Tours
Poverty Bay
Gisborne Hotels
Taranaki
Taranaki Hotels
Taranaki Suggestions
New Plymouth Hotels
Wanganui Hotels
Taupo/Ruapehu
Taupo Hotels
Taupo Suggestions
Ohakune Hotels
Waikato/Waitomo
Hamilton Hotels
Hamilton Tours
Waikato Suggestions
Waitomo Caves
Waitomo Hotels
Waitomo Tours
Other Links
Travel Links
 
 

3D Maze

Getting lost in Rotorua


Labyrinth at Te Ngae Park

Rotorua Highlights
Adventure in Rotorua
Adventure Photos of Rotorua

Photos of Rotorua

By Richard Moore

Looking GoodTucked away off the main road east into/out of Rotorua is a fun place that should give computer-age kids (and yourselves) something a bit different in the way of entertainment.

It's at Te Ngae Park, about three kilometres past Rotorua Airport, and is a huge wooden 3D Maze made up of 57,000 metres of wood.

The walls are too high to peek over - even for tall folk - but to save those fearful of enclosed spaces from the terrors you can actually scoot through gaps at the bottom of the planks. Mind you, that would be cheating and ruins the fun of the labyrinth.

The aim is to go in one of four entrances, make your way around either an easy or tough course and get to each of four coloured mini towers. They are blue, red, yellow and green.

Looking GoodOho, you say, this will be easy … but, believe me, even the brightest of folk will make more than a couple of wrong turns and end up in dead ends.

And the rules say that once you've made your way to all four corners you have to get out by using the same entrance you went into the maze.

Our posse of kids had a ball running around blaming us every time they hit a walled end and the good lady and myself had to rescue them from confusion on a couple of occasions.

The 3D Maze is good like that as you can reassert all-knowing authority over seven to nine-year-olds by showing you are better at it than they are.

If you want to visit the 3D Maze then you need to keep an eye out for the road signs, particularly if you are coming in from the east and Tauranga.

The signs to the maze are only on the opposite side of the road due to officialdom and if you get to Rotorua Airport you've gone too far.

Apparently the bureaucrats have ruled signs to the 3D Maze can't be made too obvious because officials fear they could distract drivers. Mind you, for a fee of $5000 the owners have been offered billboards …!!!

The 3D Maze is very reasonably priced and for three kids and two adults we only forked out $24.

In a tourist town - that's almost free!

 

Copyright Richard Moore 2009 | Contact Us | Currency Converter | About Us | Privacy Policy |