Near Hamilton is the only Tea Plantage in NZ, it's named Zealong. It s a very smart Business idea and they export most of their production (Also to the German Teegschwender...that's how we heard about it).
It is all Oolong tea from a taiwan tee plant...and it tastes good :-)
After drinking liters of tea, we went on - Coming through Matamata, we at least stopped in “Hobbity„ , the marketing center for trips to Hobbiton. So Donkey could shot some pretense pics :-)
The area here around Matamata stills holds some amazing beauty places for free - like this double water fall in the mountains !!!Read more