Timaru, New Zealand Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

The small port city of TIMARU , 18km south of Temuka, is one of the South Island's larger provincial centres, weighing in with 28,000 residents. At the end of a straight and flat two-hour drive from Christchurch, the city's gently rolling hills mark a subtle change and provide the setting for an austere streetscape partly built of volcanic "bluestone" – the local council insisted on stone and brick constructions after a devastating fire in 1868. With the possible exceptions of the Aigantighe Art Gallery and the South Canterbury Museum , there is no vastly compelling reason to stop here; … more »