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Rugby Tours To Wellington

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Rugby Tours to Wellington is a major city in New Zealand.

Another new adventure being added to Irish Rugby Tours tour list of destinations to visit.

Wellington the capital and second most populous urban area of New Zealand, with 418,500 residents.

It is located at the south-western tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Remutaka Range.

Its name is from Arthur Wellesley, the first Duke of Wellington.

Title comes from the town of Wellington in the English county of Somerset.  Created by the original settlers of the New Zealand Company in November 1840.

This was based on the suggestion of the directors of the same.

Simply because of the recognition of the Duke’s support for the company’s principles of colonisation.

Super Rugby is also part of the city, the Hurricanes are based here at the Westpac Stadium.

The world’s best flyhalf is currently playing for them in Beauden Barrett. Several other team mates also play for the All Blacks.

Like Auckland it to0 has a feeder club in the Mitre 10 Cup called the Wellington Lions.

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TOUR HIGHLIGHTS

Our Popular Inclusions for a Rugby Tour to Wellington

  • Watch a Super Rugby fixture.
  • Attend an intensive training session with top coaches.
  • Pop along to the Westpac Stadium for a guided tour.
  • Visit the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
  • Head for heights? Try out the Wellington Cable Car.
  • Enjoy a day out on Scorching Bay Beach.
  • Meet the animals who inhabit the Wellington Zoo.
  • Get down to Cuba Street and enjoy a few hours shopping.
  • There’s no time for rest at the Weta Caves.
  • Museum lovers will enjoy the Wellington Museum.
  • For those who like church history, a guided tour awaits you at Old St. Pauls Church.
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Weta Cave Museum

The famous Weta Cave Shop is the hub of Weta Studio Tours in Miramar, Wellington.

At the Weta Cave you can snap a selfie with life-sized sculptures, wander through the mini-museum.

Also available is the cave’s the exclusive documentary, it’s a movie lover’s paradise.

Pick up incredible artefacts from the world of film, The Weta Cave boasts a range of high-end sculptures.

In addition, prop replicas, art prints and apparel designed by Weta artists.

You also have exclusive behind-the-scenes documentary, screening every 30 minutes.

Miniature props showcase a mini-museum displaying Weta Workshop artefacts from films they have worked on are all on show.

Wellington Cable Car

The Wellington Cable Car is a funicular railway between Lambton Quay, the main shopping street, and Kelburn in the hills.

A one-way trip takes approximately five minutes and the Wellington Cable Car is widely recognised as a symbol of Wellington.

Just slightly under a million people each year use it.  In the mornings and evenings, it is used by commuters travelling between Kelburn and the city.

At other times of the day, it is used by people travelling between the city and the Wellington Botanic Garden.

Students attending Victoria University and living in nearby accommodation and many tourists especially during summer, also avail of it.

The Cable Car Museum was opened in December 2000.

Located in the original winding house, and with a new extension completed in 2006, it houses original grip cars 1 and 3.

Car 1 is in red 1970s livery, including contemporary advertising.  Car 3 was restored in 2005 to a green livery dating from about 1905.

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Te Papa Tongarewa

Te Papa Tongarewa translates literally to ‘Container of Treasures’.  A fuller interpretation is ‘our container of treasured things and people that spring from mother earth here in New Zealand’.

Museum’s philosophy emphasises the living face behind its cultural treasures, many of which retain deep ancestral links to the indigenous Māori people.

The Museum recognises the partnership that was created by the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840.

In the History Collection, many dresses and textiles, the oldest of which date back to the sixteenth century.

Also included the New Zealand Post Archive with around 20,000 stamps and related objects.

A Pacific Collection with about 13,000 historic and contemporary items from the Pacific Islands is also on show.

There are significant collections of fossils and archaeozoology on show. About 250,000 dried specimen, a collection of about 70,000 specimen of New Zealand birds, significant amphibians, reptiles and mammals also.

Westpac Stadium Tour

Located on the harbour is the Westpac Stadium.  Home to Super Rugby franchise the Hurricanes.

So, a good idea while in Wellington is to take a stadium tour.

Want to see where the players prepare or have a peek at the Stadium pitch from the players’ tunnel?

Learn fascinating facts with a behind the scenes tour that will ignite the imagination.

What will you see?  A bird’s eye view of the playing field from the top floor, where the hospitality areas are.

The media and broadcasting areas plus the players changing rooms and warm up areas.

View of the pitch from the players tunnel and the concourse and seating bowl.

Unfortunately for visitors the groundsmen need to keep the pitch in top condition, so there is no access onto the pitch.

Who knows who you might meet on the tour.

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