Oamaru New Zealand: Victorian age revisited.

Be prepared to step back in time and emerge yourself in a time gone by. Experience Victorian elegance and style.

Take a guided tour to Macraes Gold Mine and historic Golden Point Battery near Palmerston. Macraes Gold Project is New Zealand's largest gold mining operation accounting for approximately 42% of the country's gold production. In ten years of operation the Macraes Gold Project has produced in excess of 1,000,000 ounces of gold, and currently produces approximately 160,000 ounces per annum in New Zealand.

Admire Oamaru's historic stone architecture - many buildings feature Oamaru stone, a form of local limestone. These buildings were largely built during the period 1860’s - 1880’s and today remain as New Zealand’s most complete collection of Victorian buildings.

View the penguins coming ashore at dusk at the Oamaru Blue Penguin colony. Blue penguins are the smallest of the world's 17 species of penguin. Standing just 25cm high and weighing 1 kilogram, they can be found around the coast of New Zealand and in Southern Australia.

Marvel at the perfect roundness of the mysterious Moeraki boulders, which lie uncovered by the sea 33km south of Oamaru. The famous Moeraki boulders lie scattered along a beach 40 kilometres south of Oamaru. According to Maori legend, the boulders are gourds washed from the great voyaging canoe Araiteuru when it was wrecked upon landfall in New Zealand some 1000 years ago.

After experiencing all the history and scenery of this nationally historic area, relax in style when the day is done in on of Oamaru 's many lodging facilities.