Dunedin HOURS in DUNEDIN DROPPING ANCHOR in NEW ZEALAND’S DUNEDIN? CHRIS PRITCHARD HAS a FEW TIPS
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Experience I BITE-SIZE CITY GUIDE CHRISTCHURCH 24 Dunedin HOURS IN DUNEDIN DROPPING ANCHOR IN NEW ZEALAND’S DUNEDIN? CHRIS PRITCHARD HAS A FEW TIPS SUNRISE Start your day as king of the castle and climb a stone alfresco tables at hotspot Nova, stairway to a turret with renowned for the best coffee 31 stunning views of the Pacific and pastries in town. Don’t Ocean and the rolling green miss the handmade white- LUNCH fields of the Otago Peninsula. chocolate-and-pistachio-filled The Good Oil is arguably The only building of its kind in doughnuts. Dunedin’s hippest lunch New Zealand, Larnach Castle Nearby is the Dunedin destination. Despite an was built 145 years ago by a Public Art Gallery: head for expansion next door, the gold-rush merchant homesick the rooms showcasing leading tiny, casual, city-centre for the grand landmarks contemporary New Zealand eatery still has few empty of his Scottish homeland. artists before exploring tables. The risotto with You can stay here too, with colonial-era art. A nook is prawns and crème fraîche accommodation ranging from devoted to celebrated Dunedin- is a signature dish. Service, budget (in restored stables) born painter Frances Hodgkins cheerily casual, is fast. to luxurious (in opulently (who did most of her work while thegoodoilcafe.com furnished surrounds). Only 15 living in England). minutes’ drive from Dunedin, From there take a seven- the grand estate is a fitting way minute walk to Otago Museum, to begin a tour of the city known with the world’s southernmost affectionately as “the most planetarium, a real forest, and Scottish city outside Scotland”. a gallery focused on Maori dunedinnz.com customs with an elaborately larnachcastle.co.nz carved entranceway as a showpiece. Before lunch, squeeze in Dunedin’s famous Baldwin Street – the world’s steepest PEOPLE-WATCHING, residential street. Deceptively COFFEE AND CULTURE easy-looking to walk, it lures Many cities boast central visitors to huff and puff along squares. Dunedin goes one its 350-metre length. Some FROM THE TOP: Larnach Castle; NZ TOURISM, OTAGO MUSEUM OTAGO NZ TOURISM, better: The Octagon, an eight- cheat, driving to the summit to sided expanse dominated pose for “breathless” selfies. Frances Hodgkins, Summer 1912 Dunedin Public Art Gallery; The by St Paul’s Cathedral and a dunedin.art.museum Tangata Whenua gallery at the statue of Scottish poet Robert novadunedin.co.nz Otago Museum. PHOTOGRAPHY Burns. People-watch from otagomuseum.nz Experience I BITE-SIZE CITY GUIDE Get close up and personal with alocal Car ching WILD LIFE Dunedin anchors New Zealand’s wildlife strip. Tours include the Royal Albatross Centre (Dunedin’s number-one attraction, with the world’s only inhabited breeding location of these seabirds with a three- metre wingspan), walks on Sandfly Bay’s beach among basking sea lions, visits to New Zealand fur seal colonies and trips to a habitat of rare yellow- eyed penguins. Elm Wildlife Dunedin and the adjoining Tours incorporates many of these highlights. Otago Peninsula are blessed If the weather is balmy, take a hike. Dunedin and the with options 32 adjoining Otago Peninsula are blessed with options. Arguably the best: the two-hour, five- kilometre Pineapple Track passes through tussock- studded countryside with skyline, harbour and sheep- studded farmland spread below. 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