WELLINGTON New Zealand 🇳🇿 Top Things to See & Do Travel Guide | 197 Countries, 3 Kids
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ส.ค. 2024
- Join us as we take you on a tour around Wellington, visiting the top-rated and must-see attractions in the capital of New Zealand.
1. Our first stop is at Zealandia, Wellington’s wildlife sanctuary. It’s only a 15-minute-drive from the capital and totally worth checking out! It was such an amazing place that we created a full video on our experience and will be releasing it soon.
2. The ever-bustling Cuba Street! People said this was Wellington’s most loved, most colorful, most exciting street full of quirky vintage shops, busy cafés, and incredible street art, and rightly so. Also, getting splashed by the “Bucket Fountain” on Cuba Street and trying a classic Kiwi dessert called Lamingtons are essential experiences here.
3. Another place you don’t want to miss when visiting this capital is the Te Papa Museum. This interactive preserver of New Zealand history features six levels, hundreds of permanent and temporary exhibitions and it’s completely free of charge. You’ll need at least a day to explore this treasure. • Te Papa - New Zealand...
4. Now that we are time traveling, our next stop is the Wellington Museum for a quick history lesson of this amazing city.
5. Join us for a walk at the Wellington waterfront where we enjoyed the sunny weather and discovered the Writers Walk full of New Zealand’s best authors’ quotes, a community piano, and the famous “Solace of the Wind” statue. It made us realize that Wellington is not your ordinary, run-of-the-mill type of capital. Chantal also tried another “Down Under” staple - the Flat White. For those of you who are wondering what that might be, it’s New Zealand and Australia’s most famous coffee drink.
6. Moving away from the marina, we continued on to the Supreme Court and visited the Beehive - seat of New Zealand’s Parliament. We actually took a tour around the Beehive and ended up surprised by how much fun it was!
7. A drive to Lower Hutt to discover the peaceful beaches and a beautiful sunset is a must while in town!
8. We returned to the Parliament for a live session with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern present. Such a cool experience!
9. We took a cable car ride! At the top we explored the Wellington Botanic Gardens, visited an old-style perfume shop and discovered Wellington’s astronomical observatory sundial.
10. Next on our must-see list was the Weta Workshop. It’s a special effects and prop company that works on Hollywood blockbusters like “The Lord of the Rings”, “Avatar”, “Hobbit” and many others. Look out for an upcoming video on our full experience here soon as well.
11. Talking about movies, we had a totally different experience at the vintage Roxy Movie Theater which felt like stepping back in time.
12. We finished with an escape room at Escape Masters! So much thrill and anticipation as we were trying to find our way out, and we did it with 6 minutes to go!
If you have any other suggestions for places to see and visit in Wellington, please drop us a comment. Enjoy the video!!!
1:46 Zealandia Wildlife Sanctuary
2:10 Cuba Street
5:30 Lamingtons - Classic Kiwi Dessert
7:46 Te Papa, New Zealand’s Most Famous Museum
8:02 Wellington Museum
10:50 Winter Weather in Wellington
10:06 Wellington Writers Walk
13:40 The Famous Flat White
14:10 Carter Memorial Fountain
15:40 The Beehive - Seat of Parliament Tour
19:22 Lambton Quay
21:00 Lower Hutt Sunset Over Wellington
23:32 Watching the Parliament in Action
25:20 Wellington Cable Car
27:29 Old Style Perfume Shop
29:50 Sundial of Human Involvement
30:58 Weta Workshop
31:14 The Roxy Cinema
32:40 NZ Penguin Crossing
34:01 “Wellywood” - World’s Southernmost Capital
34:17 Escape Masters Wellington
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Just discovered your Wellington video last week and we love it! As ex Wellingtonians we can say you nailed it! You summed up the city in less than 30 minutes beautifully with smiles and lots of fun! We are avid fans and have subscribed. Thanks for the fun.
So glad you enjoyed the tour of your home city! Thanks for subscribing!
You guys are amazing! With all the bad news your beautifully made positive travel videos are like regular breathes of fresh air!
This is the best travel video of Wellington I have ever seen. You capture the laid-back nature of our city as well as its attractions. Fantastic!!
Great video. I would love to visit NZ someday. Beautiful country!
Thank you for visiting my home town WELLINGTON. Glad you had nice weather😂 And enjoyed yourself there. 🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
I know. The weather was perfect!
Thank you Patton fams that was great hanging out with you in Welly 👍🏽
Very good summation of my home town ... _"Windy Wellington"_
Hahaha I think "Titanic" is a ship and Tectonic is the continental plates. Awesome vid, keep up the great work...
Hey guys so enjoyed the prem/ vlog the people in wellington are cool and arty crafty you could Walk around with a frying pan on your head and get away with it, hehe! They would call it a trend😎😃👍❤️✌️🇳🇿
beautiful looks everything back to normal
Don’t know why 2 people thumbs down the video. Tons of information from a fun and loving family. What’s not to like. Well done.
Yip every TH-camr will have trolls sad but true, or it could
All TH-cam's will collect a troll here and there quite sad really usually people who are jealous or nothing better to do
You did a fantastic job of showcasing Wellington 🤗
Have just watched your video of your visit to Picton and followed on with the Cook Strait crossing to Wellington. Have just watched the first of your Wellington vids and I have to say , being a Wellingtonian since 1972, I am amazed at the amount of walking you do. I used to do that when I was a 20+ year old. It's a lovely city and it has many nooks and crannies and many other sides to it. It is actually a very large area. You certainly nailed the weather on your visit.
I never intended to stay here, but 50 years later I'm still here .. that's got to say something for the place.
I love the personal aspects you give freely, it helps to remind me why I belong here.
You have given me something special ... a sense of place .. thank you so much for sharing.
Enjoy your safe travels and love to you and your family.
Thanks so much for the lovely comment. It’s honestly comments like this that keep us motivated to continue to pump out content. You definitely have a beautiful city and I can see why you’re still there. Best!
Great vids totally love it. Just want to let you know four cities are in the Wellington region. Wellington City, Lower Hutt City, Upper Hutt City and Porirua City . They are all with in a 45 minute max car drive to each other . If you get the chance head over the hill and visit the Waiarapa and try some of the wines from the local vineyards. FYI Wellington is the windest city in the world hence its nickname Windy Wellington.
Thanks for the info and so glad you enjoyed the video!
Its not bad old Wellington, not bad at all ✌ good video!
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!
Great video!! Entertaining and relaxing😊😊😊 Well, in India situation has improved a lot. Cases has decreased a lot. But the problem is that the 3rd wave will arrive around September in which children are also vulnerable to this killer virus. I am also a kid (13yrs) so I am also scared. I hope that kids will also get vaccinated in the future. Let's hope for the best. Stay Positive and Have a great day❤
Another fantastic video that summarises some of the key highlights in Wellington 🤩 amazing how good editing makes things look so glorious...but then again the city is amazing to start with.
With this year's winter in Dunedin the North Island/Wellington has its appeal along with Picton.
Hi! My name is Charlene. I live in Plymouth Massachusetts, down the street from the Plymouth Plantation where the pilgrims landed in 1620.
Anyways, I was just looking at the different scenes that appear on my smart tv when you first turn it on and a beautiful picture of Switzerland came on and I decided to TH-cam it and your videos appeared.
I watched one and your editing is so professional I just had to watch another one. Well now I’m hooked lol! I just subscribed.
Can't wait to go back home. Miss it heaps!
Loved seeing all my old haunts with you. . . Kiwi from Virginia
I hope we’re brining back some nice memories for you.
@@GrowingUpWithoutBorders You certainly did, bring the memories thank you , I thoroughly enjoyed it all
The size of Wellington is insane!!
Congratulations to you guys to heads Wellington, New Zealand last year or 2021 in peace❤❤❤❤
Thanks!
Brilliantly done!
Thanks!
Hi thank you for posting. We will be there on Saturday. Are you Canadian. We are!
Waitin with joy for your video my dear famyli 🙇♂️😁
Great! Just getting a cup of coffee. 😀
@@GrowingUpWithoutBorders what delicious coffe ☕☕😛
After the previous video, I was thinking that Wellington might be a great place to live with the homes elevated above the harbor and the great views. Learning about the fault line and chance of a big earth quake in the future, I changed my mind. I think I will visit and take lots of pictures, but not risk that maybe the waterfront will change once again. Great video as usual.
It’s definitely a risk of living there. Most homes are build to withstand an earthquake but still.
nice virtual tour. thanks
Hey I'm a Wellingtonian, glad you enjoyed our city! Cuba street is the coolest street in the City!
We loved it! So vibrant with all its cafes, restaurants and bars!!
Great video. Really enjoyed seeing the museum. We visited a few years ago but a lot of it was temporarily closed off. Did you visit the Air museum in Blenheim. We went last october while visiting our daughter. It had amazing displays with soldiers (also made by Weta Workshop) and a theater with a show that seemed as if you were in a bombed building with planes flying over. The sound effects were amazing
Its very rare Wellington has a warm winter. If you stick around long enough, you'll find out what a winter southerly is like!! Bittery cold winter wind direct from Antarctica.
Nice👍👍👍👍👍
Hi, Thank you all for a great, enjoyable, fun and informative video! I am in Canada. I love your presentation style and your training of new presenters 😊.
Beautiful ❤️❤️
Nicely done whanau!
Thanks!
The Roxy Cinema is owned by Richard Taylor of Weta, hence the Oscar.
That makes sense. 😉
Very nice growing
Sleeveless in winter... I have to keep reminding myself you're Canadians and this is barely autumn temperatures for you guys. LOL
Exactly!
" Hi There Chantal, Julia, Angelique, And The Bubbly Chloe! "
" Were you all in Blenheim about two weeks ago? "
I may be mistaken, but I believe that I had seen Sophia, Angelique And Chloe at The Elim church on Sunday night, but I don't know whether their mother was with them.
I tried to get Sophia, Angelique, and Chloe attention but they were busy with other people. It would of been awesome if my friends and I were able to have gotten to meet you and given you all a Maori Welcome To The Elim Church.
Hi! That was us 😂😂Such a small world. Send us a message on Instagram @growingupwithoutborders or contact us via our website. 😉
"lower hutt doesn't have much to offer" bruh i've lived in lower hutt my whole life and this beasically sums up the place lmao
Love you all,,,
Waiting 🧒
👍🙌
Very keen to go to New Zealand,,,,
You would love. It’s really a beautiful country!
The great parts of Cuba/Cuban culture are extremely undervalued in the States due to decades of political issues !
It's called Communism.
I hope you met Jacinda..! Can't wait to see this video...
Not quite but we did see her!!!
@Ocean Blue Donald? Donald? Is that you?
@Ocean Blue 🙄
@Ocean Blue She has unfortunately turned into one,our military allies are vital,yet she let Nanaia Mahuta growl at Australia,and told them to be more respectful towards China. So expect more of our precious land and companies to be sold to them. Wasted my vote.
Nice
Very much enjoyed seeing my home town. Have looked for your detailed video of Weta Workshop but could not find it. Is it still being edited?
Yes it being worked on as we speak. I plan to have it up next Saturday. 🙌
Hi there.
I always try to visit Zealandia at Kaka feeding time. You can get quite close.
Cuba St has only taken on the Latin theme in recent years. The Bucket Fountain dates from 1969 when a section of the street was pedestrianized. Elisha Wood was not impressed with it. You can google that.
The rock you can see is the biggest Island of Island Bay. The fishing boats are a remnant of the mostly Italians who settled there. (I am corrected below)
At 11:37 you pointed to the wrong hill. The drone footage that follows is from the hill, left of screen, where the larger tuft of cloud is. They both have communication masts. On the drone shot the place you are pointing from can be located a quarter of the way across from the left edge. You are by the marina. There is a large black block of a building nearer the center of the drone view which passes behind the statue's head in the next footage.
At 12:06 is one of the worlds last floating cranes.
You have to drink a Flat White in a porcelain cup. Nothing tastes good in paper except fish n' chips. At least with the lid off not sucked through a hole.
Quay is pronounced 'key'. At 15:16 you can see the Beehive against the hill. Easy to miss. If you look on a map you'll notice almost every street running parallel to Lampton Quay is also a quay because each in turn was a wooden quay where ships tied up. After the earthquake created shallows they filled it in one quay at a time.
So Lower Hutt didn't have a lot to offer. I'm from LH but I live in Chch. Some nice bush walks and a river cycle trail. The Eastern Bays are great, I miss them. There are very nice bush walks on the hills. You can also hire a bike at the end of the road and cycle out to the light houses and a wetland. People should look for regional park maps or google Wellington regional trails. Along the ridge is good and the walk to Butterfly Creek. The climb up - not so much.
The private funicular rails have keys and or passwords so people can't joyride.
You cut the shot at 23:28 just as you were approaching the much admired house of an architect.
The cable cars back before they changed about 1981 had seats outside along the middle section - and no belts. Much more fun as a kid.
Miramar is Spanish. Mira = look/see, mar = sea/ocean, which is exactly what you do.
I'm going up to see my mum in the near future. It's good to see things you know through the eyes of others. Quite a nice place, I can't wait now. Thanks.
Island Bay's fishermen were Italian mostly.
@@juliaforsyth8332 Oh ok thanks.
" So you escaped from one of my panic traps... My work will continue".
Huh? You mean the escape room?
@@GrowingUpWithoutBorders yeah, it was a wee pun about those Saw horror films. Badman = Jigsaw. They should do a Scooby doo escape room,?.
Yeah 😂😂Scooby doo!!
actually, im interesting your made videos. so i ofter to browsing that. sometimes still introduce to my friends for watching. im from hongkong.
Ah that's great! I'm glad you're enjoying the videos!!
@@GrowingUpWithoutBorders I’m retired. I’d like to find my place where as my life of retirements .end of this year I’m going to Thai and check it out. I’m partial to live nearby beaches for walking around . If possible I love to fishing…. Haha. Really..
Because hk had changed and getting worked…… a lot of hk people choosing immigrated and be going now.
Sorry I’m know a bit English. Maybe made you unknow. Ok
Plan to visit in April 2025😊
Titanic plates 😂😂
Love your work, when was this shot? You said there was nothing in the Hutt Valley, have you checked out Jackson St in Petone?
We’ve since been back through Lower Hutt a few times but we haven’t seen Jackson St. yet. We’ll have to check it out. Thanks for sharing!
@@GrowingUpWithoutBorders also check out Brewtown in Upper Hutt.
Thank you for this sweet and amazing video of Wellington. We are watching from Mauritius (look that up 😅 clue: Indian Ocean) .. will move soon in your neighbourhood too 🐳💦
That’s awesome! Mauritius sounds amazing! I’m sure you will quite enjoy living in Wellington.
Thank you very much for your feedback it means a lot to us and may see you soon! :)@@GrowingUpWithoutBorders
I seeing this video from pakistan.
Couldn't help point out that Quay in English is pronounced Kee. Love your videos, make me feel homesick for Wellington
I’ve always wondered that. We know it only from French speaking areas who call it the quay. Good to know. 👍
Kathy G is correct. Quay is pronounced 'kee' or 'key'. So Lampton Quay in Wellington, and Quay Street in Auckland, are pronounced Lampton Key and Key Street.
@@K_one_w_one ... But they're in New Zealand. If this family wants to be understood while here (street directions etc.) then they should use "Key" not "Quai". If they use "Quai", nobody will understand them ... unless they speak French.
This is the same as me visiting a non-English speaking country. I need to use the correct pronunciation in that country to be understood.
@@K_one_w_one _"...a lot of French words..."_ is an understatement. Almost 30 percent of English words are of French origin.
Hi its Lambton Quay.
Thanks...my bad
hi guys . ... newzaland , ..⛵🌧🌲🌲nice places to visit n to spend a holiday n to hv a nice time , . ...will u guys travel to middle east . .. such as Lebanon ,Jordan , 🌴🏝✈ Egypt ..
they can now on a New Zealand passport, we export a lot of Lamb to the Middle East,
its Late Autumn here now and quite,
Out Government Support Palestine, n their State,
I voted for Jacinda,
Would you all move to NZ or ready to move on and enjoy the fond memories.. just wondering
Time stamp 28:35 I think they gave us a hint they are heading to the Netherlands im not sure though
@@johnpaki1534 maybe next summer not sure if it's Northern or Southern hemisphere summer haha,. good on them.👍
From 15:55 to 16:40 you were actually walking past the largest wooden building in the world. :)
Oh wow! That’s amazing. Thanks for letting us know.
i had two job interviews in Wellington, one in the National library, in one in the Parliament library,
you can visit both of them, if thats a theme?
Hey guys Brian here watching from Napier have you passed through here yet 🤔🤔😁.
Yes we did visit Napier and loved it! We’ll be releasing the videos from our time there in the upcoming months. 🙌
Where are You gals? Buen waiting for your videos here in México. Hola
Hola! Nos gustan Mexico mucho!
Did you play Chariots of Fire?
I attempted too.
Hi, can you tell ( if you know) why the vaccination rate is so low in NZ? Do people feal safe in think covid will never come back to NZ and country will be closed forever?
Our vaccination programme is underway in NZ and in 4 stages - the 4th stage is the rest of NZ, and that happens from the end of July onwards.
Who told you the vaccination rate was low, I would love to know your source? NZ is taking a measured safe 4 stage approach to vaccination's which has resulted in more Kiwi's vaccinated per capita then Australian's. The main population will start getting their injections from July onwards.
No NZ is quite clever they held back on vaccination for the world was our ginneapig
19:56 "Refurbished land" - did they get the decorators in?
I say some silly things sometimes. 😂😂
Hahah! Earthquakes believe it or not can actually be producers of land which is great for rising sea levels I had a laugh to
Were you in Eastbourne, not Lower Hutt?
Yep we drove through Lower Hutt and that was Eastbourne.
Had you been to New Plymouth yet
Yes! We had a great time there and will be back for sure. Do you have any suggestions for things to see and do?
Hi am zippora from Uganda coming to visit new Zealand but l need a friend
We’re not there at the moment. You’ll find the New Zealander quite friendly though.
Sorry! NOTHING to offer in Lower Hutt! Lower Hutt has a hecknof a lot to offer. You managed to offend an entire city with that comment. Lower Hutt is known for its great walks & cycle tracks. Our river is the heart of our city! Coming up is The Festival of Lights. In summer, we have loads of fairs, outdoor concerts, sports events. The walk up wainuiomata hill is amazing! The view spectacular! And stopping to look at the lego wall which is done by a local artist. I feel you didn't even take time to get to know the Hutt Valley or even ask the locals what there is to do.
You’re right. We just did a drive by without stopping that day. Since our visit, we’ve actually have been many times now to Lower Hutt and met dear friends there. We still haven’t fully discovered it yet though.
Well they are only passing through .I'm from the Hutt and I wasn't offended
how do you earn an income while travelling?
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Hi hi my name is niyamat choudhary I am from Pakistan Karachi I saw your videos I love you videos and I love your family and I am also in a Facebook if you like my Facebook not so good but little bit I love you videos and specially New Zealand videos so beautiful thank you take care of you love you bye
That’s amazing! Our girls are with a boy from their class today and he’s also from Karachi but living in Singapore.
Please see that vid I post on my last comment
That was quite silly.
@@GrowingUpWithoutBorders Did you mean me or garandhero
L need a friend am from east Africa Uganda pliz l need a friend