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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack team podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks.

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Speaker 2: That'd be Mike Cardle's our travel corresponding. He is here now, Kilder, Mike.

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Speaker 3: Good morning, Jacket. Feels like perf and christ Church today.

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Speaker 2: Okay, how so what great white sharks everywhere? Forty degrees

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Speaker 2: second most isolated city in the world.

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Speaker 3: No, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's scot that sort of vibe

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Speaker 3: Jack the Western forcer in town. They're going to be

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Speaker 3: smashed even though the weather is more to the liking.

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Speaker 3: It's twenty five degrees and sunny in christ.

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Speaker 2: Is there right, twenty five already?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, right.

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Speaker 4: So okay, have you got great and rugby? Though?

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Speaker 2: Is the Northwest or is it.

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Speaker 3: Probably will crank up at the moment. It's calm, but

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Speaker 3: I think it will crank up. But yeah, but I

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Speaker 3: love afternoon rugby. It's just the best.

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Speaker 2: It is a I just reckon, yeah, I did kind

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Speaker 2: of afternoon slash slash evening sports. Like there's something to

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Speaker 2: be said for the may I mean this one, but

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Speaker 2: been one of the things walking all their games have

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Speaker 2: been or their home games have been at five pm.

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Speaker 2: It's just so nice, like just you know, anyway, massive difference. Anyway,

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Speaker 2: we're focusing on things slightly further north from where you

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Speaker 2: are today, bites and sites in Utrua, and there is

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Speaker 2: no sort of shortage of places in town for a

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Speaker 2: hot soak. But what is so good about why Riki?

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Speaker 3: Oh my goodness check this ebe lead luxury spa boost

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Speaker 3: onto the scene about a year and a half ago,

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Speaker 3: and they have cemented themselves as a signature experience in town.

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Speaker 3: So rather than just taking like a quick dip in

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Speaker 3: a hot pole, why Ardeki comprises five distinct experiences.

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Speaker 4: It's like a journey. It's like a wellness journey.

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Speaker 3: So you move from the extremities of heat to cool

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Speaker 3: mud to water, air to steam, and it's all aimed

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Speaker 3: at ramping up the therapeutic benefits of all things to

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Speaker 3: your thermal So, for example, they've got the tonguerero fire

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Speaker 3: and ice capes. So you start off baking yourself in

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Speaker 3: the sauna and then you throw a bucket of ice

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Speaker 3: flakes all over your body. It's so theatrical and just

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Speaker 3: really sensory.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and like it's not uncomfortable at all.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's funny because I'm a bit of a wasp

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Speaker 3: when it comes to pole of plunging. I had this

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Speaker 3: sort of anxiety moment in Finland some years ago watching

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Speaker 3: the fins, you know, hurling themselves into oceanic pole of

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Speaker 3: water after baking themselves in the sauna. But Edwyiki, they've

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Speaker 3: got like this magnificent sequence of geothermal poles, and they

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Speaker 3: are designed so that you hop scotch from forty two

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Speaker 3: degrees of hot water to nine degrees in the plunge pole.

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Speaker 3: And I did finally summon the carriage to play ball jack.

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Speaker 3: It is shockingly invigorated. I mean, my body was tingling.

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Speaker 3: At first. I thought my body was burning from the

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Speaker 3: cold sensation, right, but then it just tingles. You get

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Speaker 3: this warm, tingling glow all over. It is quite transformative.

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Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, good. Yes, it's like a couple of moments

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Speaker 2: of discomfort, but the benefits ultimately are yeah nice. Okay.

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Speaker 2: So that's why, ikey, if you just head out of

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Speaker 2: town on the Skyline gondola, aside from using what else

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Speaker 2: should you do at the mountaintop?

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Speaker 4: That's funny.

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Speaker 3: Actually, I had not loosed before until a few weeks

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Speaker 3: ago when I went up to the skyline. Yeah, I know,

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Speaker 3: isn't that crazy great place to lose your lousing virginity though,

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Speaker 3: because they've got seven kilometers of newly designed loose tracks

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Speaker 3: and they've got these super cool led lit tunnels on

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Speaker 3: the upper slopes of Mount non Otaha. But the other thing,

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Speaker 3: Jack is, once you've done your losing and whatnot, take

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Speaker 3: a walk on that skyline nature trail because you will

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Speaker 3: not get bit of us across the city and the

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Speaker 3: lake from those upper slopes. And I just loved looking

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Speaker 3: out at mccoya Island bobbing on the horizon in the

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Speaker 3: middle of the lake. And I didn't realize until recently

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Speaker 3: that that island is intricately linked with the love song

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Speaker 3: Paul Kata Kadiana. So that is the island that Henny

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Speaker 3: Mowers swims across the lake to to canoodle with her

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Speaker 3: forbidden lover on mccoya Islands.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, fabulous walk up there. Just brilliant use.

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Speaker 3: And I also love how the locally be they believe

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Speaker 3: fairy like people live in the forest on those misty mountaintops.

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Speaker 4: They still believe that.

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Speaker 2: Interesting. Yeah, Okay, I didn't know that either. That's really interesting.

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Speaker 2: So for geothermal spectacles in towns where is good for

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Speaker 2: the social media feed.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there are so many choices. Jacket's a bit like

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Speaker 3: having to pick your favorite child. But if you're after

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Speaker 3: cartoonish colors and geothermal eye candy, I reckon wyld Tapu

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Speaker 3: just cannot fail to deliver because have got the Champagne Pool,

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Speaker 3: which is our largest hot spring, over sixty meters deep,

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Speaker 3: and it's got that fabulous Aqua marine center, and then

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Speaker 3: all the burnt orange edges artists Pellett our largest mud pole,

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Speaker 3: and I love big masses of mud. Maybe it's the

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Speaker 3: you know, the schoolboy child and me Jack, but just

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Speaker 3: watching that monstrous mess of gloopy, gurgling mud, it's like

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Speaker 3: watching a living, breathing, belching organism.

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Speaker 4: I just love it.

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Speaker 3: And then you've got crazy spectacles like Devil's Bath with

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Speaker 3: that electric green sulfur color.

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Speaker 4: It kind of looks radioactive.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, wild Tapoo, I think it's off the deluxe chart.

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Speaker 4: Nature in the extreme nice.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I've been there before. It's superb. We went a

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Speaker 2: little weekend away and yeah, it was just kind of

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Speaker 2: kind of amazing. It feels like you're in another plantay. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Rutu has always been proud of its culinary offering. Are

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Speaker 2: there any fresh peats that took you fancy?

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Speaker 3: Well, I went to Annie's gin bar and tapas for

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Speaker 3: the first time. So this is a Malori owned eatery

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Speaker 3: and the harder town and it exclusively showcases New Zealand

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Speaker 3: produce and beverages, lots of nostalgic nods to the kai

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Speaker 3: of the owner's childhood. So she has reworked that with

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Speaker 3: her culinary finesse. But you can sort of noth away

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Speaker 3: on small plates like cream power and panchetta rubbiolo smoke

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Speaker 3: smoked Cahawaii croquettes with wakami seaweed, and I thought of

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Speaker 3: you Jack for dessert sink into a Cadbury caramelo moose

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Speaker 3: with fresh berries and chantilely cream. That is just extraordinary.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think this sounds like a bit of me,

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Speaker 2: maybe a couple of those. Why is tipar tu so popular?

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Speaker 3: Well, people will recall the Tammiki Maldi village just out

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Speaker 3: of Roalta Rua, So this has taken over from those

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Speaker 3: guys in that woodland par and really raised the bar

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Speaker 3: on delivering a truly lavish cultural performance and feast. It's

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Speaker 3: a four hour long celebration of culture and Kai in

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Speaker 3: the forest, and once again it's the eats that are

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Speaker 3: just so fabulous. The canapace things like hawk and apple

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Speaker 3: wrapped in cover color leaps we had pickled pickle, pickle,

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Speaker 3: native fun fronds pickled absolutely sensational. And of course the

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Speaker 3: three course dinner is Headlines with Honey as the hero.

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Speaker 3: But once again the ice cream another smash ship there,

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Speaker 3: Jack Kumerara ice cream superb.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, cheeky Okay, that sounds superb, very good. Well, good

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Speaker 2: luck against the force this afternoon. Enjoy that game and

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