Since I got another “Holiday” from Talley’s again…
So I have to think again to spend my holiday~
Although most of the places around motueka were out of cycle distance…
I still never give up travel around Motueka! Finally I have the trip : cycle up to Takaka Hill

 Takaka Hill is on the north of Motueka, and the only way to Golden Bay…
The top of the hill contain a lot of marble rock and lime stone…
Because of this, there was a 25km long cave system in this mountain area…
The road pass by the hill is up to 700m above sea level…
And about 25km per trip for up and down the hill~

It seem impossible for a bicycle to climb up the hill… Moreover I just have an old road bike without back break! I really thanks God for this safe trip…

Time to depart~

Finally, I reached the foot of Takaka hill, the beginning of the 25km climbing

To be honest, I walked about 70% instead of cycle all along the road… Without the beautiful scene, I think I had gave up early…

Finally saw some human building after a long long way…

Not much longer, I saw the way to first station!

Hawkes Lookout have a stunning view with short distance of walkway

 

I had my lunch at Hawkes Lookout and re-plan my journey…
My first plan was reach the summit about 1pm and took another 3 hours for the hill walk~ Now I just finished 2/3 in 1pm…
Lastly, I decided went to the Ngarua Cave which not far away~

After recharge, I continue the climbing to Ngarua Cave~

Ngarua Cave is a Historical and Geological interesting place…
Cost : 15 NZD/person

It located 600m above sea level… From here, the Tasman bay was in the view…

Inside the cave have the bone of Moa (An extinct big bird which only in NZ),
and special cave system Beside that, one of the scene from《The Hobbit》 was taken from here

Because of these, it had been develop into a place for visit.. and equipped with a small coffee house which provide stunning view

Because I went there during work day, I have my personal Tour Guide, Evelyn Who provide a really detail information about the cave~

Let’s the photo tell the story:

 

 It’s already 4pm after I visited the cave… It’s impossible for me to reach the summit because it took time to went down hill too… Time to go Home~   Lastly, I used 4 hours for uphill and 40 minutes for down hill… That’s the power of Gravitation Field!
And I used up my 3 off days : 1 day collect information, 1 day action, 1 day recover

It’s hard to travel without car, but the real travel was in my heart… Without a heart, no where to reach! *of course there were problem with stamina and distance, Like me~