Places to visit in Otago, New Zealand
19 places to visit in Otago, New Zealand, each with LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp of its own: Arrowtown, Baldwin Street, Glenorchy and more. Stand at any of them with the app open and the stamp is yours, confirmed on site, in your Otago volume.
6 Famous places to visit · 13 Hidden gems
Famous places to visit in Otago (6)
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Arrowtown
A gold rush town on the Arrow River, 20 minutes from Queenstown, famous for its autumn colours. The main street keeps its 1860s miners' cottages, and the Chinese settlement beside the river shows how Chinese miners lived there.
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Baldwin Street
A residential street in North East Valley, Dunedin, certified by Guinness World Records as the steepest street in the world. It has a gradient of about 1 in 2.86 at its steepest, and each year hosts a charity race where people roll chocolate balls down it.
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Glenorchy
A small settlement at the head of Lake Wakatipu, 45 kilometres by road from Queenstown. It is the gateway to the Routeburn and Dart tracks and was a filming location for Lord of the Rings.
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Lake Wakatipu
A long, S shaped glacial lake in Otago, ringed by mountains, with Queenstown on its northern shore. It is the longest lake in New Zealand at about 80 kilometres and lies close to 380 metres above sea level.
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Moeraki Boulders
A scatter of huge, almost perfectly round boulders lying on Koekohe Beach on the Otago coast. Some are about two metres across, and they formed slowly in the mudstone seabed some 60 million years ago before the sea wore them out.
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The Remarkables
A jagged mountain range rising directly above Lake Wakatipu, south east of Queenstown. The highest peak is Double Cone at 2,319 metres, and the range holds a popular ski field reached by a steep access road.
Hidden gems in Otago (13)
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Cardrona Bra Fence
A roadside fence beside the Crown Range road in Central Otago, hung with hundreds of bras. It began in 1998 or 1999 when a few appeared on the wire, and it has since become a quirky stop and a way to raise funds for breast cancer causes.
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Cathedral Caves
A large V shaped limestone sea cave on Waipati Beach, 15 kilometres south of Papatowai on the Catlins coast. Its two main entrances join inside the cliff, and the cave can only be entered safely around low tide.
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Dunedin Railway Station
A grand railway station in Dunedin, opened in 1906 and designed by George Troup, who was nicknamed Gingerbread George. It is built of dark basalt and white Oamaru stone in a Flemish Renaissance style, and the tiled floors show a mosaic of a steam engine.
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Kawarau Gorge Suspension Bridge
A suspension bridge over the Kawarau River in Otago, run by AJ Hackett Bungy. In 1988 it became the site of the world's first commercial bungy jumping, and visitors can still jump or simply watch from the viewing platform.
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Lake Hawea
A long glacial lake in Otago, 348 metres above sea level, separated from Lake Wanaka by a narrow isthmus called The Neck. It is 392 metres deep and is a quieter lake than its neighbour.
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Lake Wanaka
The fourth largest lake in New Zealand, set 300 metres above sea level among mountains in Otago. A willow tree growing out of the water near the town has become one of the country's most photographed trees.
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Larnach Castle
A mock castle on the ridge of the Otago Peninsula, within the limits of Dunedin. It was built in the 1870s by the banker and politician William Larnach, and its rooms and gardens are open to visitors with views over the harbour.
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Mount Aspiring / Tititea
A pyramid shaped peak of 3,033 metres, the highest mountain in New Zealand outside Aoraki Mount Cook National Park. It sits at the heart of Mount Aspiring National Park, and was first climbed in 1909.
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Nugget Point
A steep headland on the Otago coast at the northern end of the Catlins, reached by road from Kaka Point. A lighthouse built in 1870 stands at its tip, surrounded by rocky islets, with seabirds, seals and sea lions below.
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Otago Museum
A museum near the centre of Dunedin beside the University of Otago, also called Tūhura Otago Museum. It is one of the country's largest museums, with collections in natural science, Māori and Pacific culture, and a tropical butterfly house.
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Otago Peninsula
A hilly finger of land forming the eastern wall of Otago Harbour in Dunedin. It has a colony of royal albatross at Taiaroa Head, yellow eyed penguins and Larnach Castle, the only castle in New Zealand.
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Routeburn Track
A 32 kilometre tramping track in the South Island that crosses the Southern Alps and can be walked in either direction. One end is near the head of Lake Wakatipu on the Queenstown side, and the other is on the Te Anau side.
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St Paul's Cathedral
An Anglican cathedral in The Octagon, the central square of Dunedin, close to the Town Hall. It is the seat of the Bishop of Dunedin and the mother church of the diocese, with a stone nave and a tall spire facing the square.
Collecting in Otago
What are the best places to visit in Otago?
LOQAH lists 19 places in Otago. The best known include Arrowtown, Baldwin Street, Glenorchy, Lake Wakatipu and Moeraki Boulders. Each has a stamp of its own to collect when you are there.
How many LOQAH stamps are there in Otago?
19, and more are added over time. Each place has LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp of its own.
How do I collect a stamp in Otago?
Open LOQAH at the place and get its stamp. LOQAH checks where you are once, at that moment; at the place itself the stamp is confirmed on site, with a gold badge.
I have been to places in Otago before. Can I add them?
Yes. In Earlier trips, choose Otago and swipe through its stamps, or import your Google Timeline. Each one goes into your volume with the date, if you know it.
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