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Opiki is a "settlement" (in the loosest sense of the word) on the Manawatu plain in New Zealand. Its population in 2005 was 350.

[edit] Understand

Opiki is one of the strongest potato-growing areas in NZ.

[edit] Get in

• On State highway 56, 15km from Palmerston North on the way to Wellington

• Opiki effectively starts as you go over the new bridge (you will pass by the old toll bridge which was washed away in 1974?) and it finishes as you go over the railway line towards Shannon.

[edit] Get around

• Tractor

• Ride a cow

[edit][add listing] See

• The pub

• Cows

[edit][add listing] Do

• Play with cows

• Go to pub, then play with cows

• Ask a local to say "it's cowtastic!"

[edit][add listing] Buy

• Drink

[edit][add listing] Eat

• Cows

[edit][add listing] Drink

The local pub is called The Barn; it's quite tastefully decorated with many implements from the area's past, and is where the local Young Farmer's Club sometimes meets.

[edit][add listing] Sleep

• In barns

[edit] Get out

• Blink