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Taranaki Entertainment - What to See & Do. If you are looking for comprehensive travel information for Taranaki Entertainment including Arts & Crafts, Cultural & Historic, Family Entertainment and Sports & Outdoors, you will find it here on AA Travel.

With a wide range of nightclubs, restaurants, bars, live music and theatre, our country's nightlife offers something for most age groups (the legal drinking age is 18). Live bands are popular with younger pub-goers and jazz venues attract a more mature audience. Nightclubs vary in music genres, and the diversity of quality live theatre ensures all interests are catered for. If you enjoy a punt or two, then try your luck at a casino, where you'll find a range of gaming tables and machines (20 is the minimum age for entry). If you're a smoker, then please note that there is a smoking ban inside all restaurants, casinos, pubs, bars and nightclubs, although provision is made outside of these establishments for smokers.

Maori settled throughout Taranaki before the arrival of Europeans. The wars of the 1860s began here
and some of the fiercest engagements took place in the area. A number of fortified sites may be
visited and museums throughout the area preserve the history of the region. New Zealand's only
known petrochemical deposits lie in the Taranaki region, offshore from Oaonui and at Kapuni and
Stratford. Synthetic fuel is produced at the Motunui plant where there is an information centre.
Taranaki also hosts the Rhododendron Festival in late October/early November, and the biennial
Festival of Arts is held in March.