Opiki

Table of Contents: Culture and History / Travel to Opiki, visa requirements / Get around / Opiki attractions and sightseeing / City tours / Shopping, Opiki souvenirs / Good restaurants and cheap meals / Opiki nightlife, bars, clubs and pubs. / Hotels, youth hostels, lodging / Get out More from Manawatu: Feilding, Opiki

Opiki is a "settlement" (in the loosest sense of the word) on the Manawatu plain in New Zealand. Its population in 2005 was 350.

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Understand

Opiki is one of the strongest potato-growing areas in NZ.

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Travel to Opiki, visa requirements

• On State highway 56, 15km from Palmerston North on the way to Wellington

• Opiki effectively starts as you go over the new bridge (you will pass by the old toll bridge which was washed away in 1974?) and it finishes as you go over the railway line towards Shannon.

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Get around

• Tractor

• Ride a cow

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Opiki attractions and sightseeing

• The pub

• Cows

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City tours

• Play with cows

• Go to pub, then play with cows

• Ask a local to say "it's cowtastic!"

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Shopping, Opiki souvenirs

• Drink

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Good restaurants and cheap meals

• Cows

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Opiki nightlife, bars, clubs and pubs.

The local pub is called The Barn; it's quite tastefully decorated with many implements from the area's past, and is where the local Young Farmer's Club sometimes meets.

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Hotels, youth hostels, lodging

• In barns

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Get out

• Blink

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