Tour Options
KOTITI Tours offer 3 - 7 Day Tours, Overnight packages, Mini-Tours, and Excursions
Tour Option 1 - EAST KOTITI Tours will shuttle you East to Opua where you will follow the Pou Herenga Tai Twin Coast Cycle Trail westward to Kaikohekohe. KOTITI Tours will pick you up and return you to the Hōreke Boutique Home Stay for dinner. After dinner you can relax and an evening of ever-changing sunsets.
Tour Option 2 - WEST KOTITI Tours will shuttle you southward to Kaikohekohe where you will follow the Utakura river along the Pou Herenga Tai Twin Coast Cycle Trail. The cycle trail goes through the mangroves as you make your way back to the Hōreke Boutique Home Stay. Another spectacular dinner and a sense of accomplishment, having just completed the Pou Herenga Tai Twin Coast Cycle Trail.
Tour Option 3 - HOKIANGA KOTITI Tours is off to Māngungu Mission Station, where the missionaries arrived and settled in 1828. The largest signing of Te Tiriti o Waitangi took place here on 12 February 1840. Following that, we head to Wairere Boulders for a guided tour through one of the prime geological features in Aotearoa. After lunch, and if the tide is favorable - we will kayak back to the Hōreke Boutique Home Stay for a well-earned dinner and relax.
Tour Option 4 - NORTH KOTITI Tours is taking you North to a fully carved marae, experience a pōwhiri and hear some history about the relationship of this marae with WWI and WWII. We then continue west to the historical Kohukohu where the main road is built on mostly sawdust - remnants of the largest timber mill in the southern hemisphere. We then cross the Hokianga on the Kohu Rā to Rāwene on the south side where we will have lunch and visit Clendon House before returning to the Hōreke Boutique Home Stay for dinner and a relaxing evening of reflection.
Tour Option 5 - WEST KOTITI Tours is heading West. We are off to the Waipoua Forest - to be guided through the ancient remnants of a sub-tropical rainforest and be in the presence of Tane Mahuta - God of the Forest. We will have lunch at Ārai-te-uru, the furthest southern point of the Hokianga Harbour. We then make our way eastward to Manea - Footprints of Kupe. Following an afternoon of multisensory storytelling about the journey of Kupe to Aotearoa, we return to the Hōreke Boutique Home Stay for dinner and another spectacular evening enjoying the gentleness of the Hokianga tide.
Tour Option 6 - WAITANGI KOTITI Tours travels over to Waitangi Treaty grounds, arriving in time for a guided Tour and Cultural performance. We will drive to Paihia for lunch and a walk around before returning to the Hōreke Boutique Home Stay for dinner - via Kawakawa.
Tour Option 7 - Cape Reinga KOTITI Tours is off to the furthest most northern part of the North Island via highway 10. We return from Cape Reinga via highway 1 - and over the Maungataniwha mountain range to Mangamuka then make our way back to the Hōreke Boutique Home Stay for dinner and another evening of spectacular views and tranquility.
Call, and we will arrange package deals that include riding our Pou Herenga Tai Twin Coast Cycle Trail then across the Cultural Landscape of the Hokianga with KOTITI Tours.
Hōreke Boutique Home Stay and KOTITI Tours
Across the Cultural Landscape of the Hokianga
Book one of our packages, stay at the HŌREKE BOUTIQUE HOMESTAY and KOTITI Tours will shuttle you and your bike to the Pou Herenga Tai - Twin Coast Cycle Trail.
KOTITI Tours will then take you BEYOND the cycle trail and across the Cultural Landscape of the Hokianga.
You will stay with us at the Hōreke Boutique Home Stay from Day 1 until your predetermined departure, so there is no need to pack up and move out each day, as we ‘explore’ the Cultural Landscape of the Hokianga with KOTITI Tours.
Indulge yourself with our sensational views and tranquil sunsets. Surrounded by mountain ranges that were once covered in mostly kauri and relaxing in the unique and gentle vibe of the Hokianga tide.
Soak in the picturesque view and relax after a long cycle.
Hōreke Boutique Home Stay is situated on the far upper reaches of the Hokianga.