Kiwi Base New Zealand

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Please check out our comprehensive informative website www.kiwibase.co.nz. This modern friendly home is available for those who want a more personal introduction to North Canterbury. Enjoy and relax in the swimming pool or the spa pool. Kaiapoi is a beautiful historic river town and only 20 miles north of Christchurch and a superb place to get to know Kiwi's informal relaxed attitudes.

Your hosts Glen and Caroline are widely traveled and know what you need to make a great start to sampling the Kiwi way of life. They have travelled very extensively and will demonstrate good rapport to people from different countries and cultures.

Kaiapoi, meaning food depot in Maori, derived it's name from the historic Pa of Ngai Tahu, and from the 1850s to the 1960s was a coastal trading base. It has a vivid Maori history and the historic Pa site can be visited today.