{"id":1314,"date":"2021-07-07T15:56:15","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T12:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nzjane.com\/?p=1314"},"modified":"2023-09-07T13:26:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T10:26:46","slug":"day-trip-to-st-bathans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nzjane.com\/day-trip-to-st-bathans\/","title":{"rendered":"Day trip to St Bathans"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The stunning desolate high country of the gold mining towns of Naseby and St Bathans is a window into the past. The past where intrepid, determined prospectors trudged through the harsh landscape on the promise of gold on the horizon. Both towns are a mere 44km apart giving visitors an opportunity to travel in the slow lane. Take time to absorb the landscape, wander through heritage cemeteries, walk around the extraordinarily beautiful lunar Blue Lake, wonder about the lives of people inhabiting the once upon a time busy St Bathans and pop into the Vulcan Hotel for a pie and local beer.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nWHERE IS ST BATHANS?<br \/>\nNothing like going down a side road. St Bathans does not disappoint as the drive from SH85 takes you to the end of the road and, of course St Bathans.\u00a0 The township is approximately 45 minutes from Alexandra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":33679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,28,17],"tags":[],"filter_destinations":[180,152,134,345],"filter_categories":[81,82,192,254,218,53],"filter_topic":[190],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.5 (Yoast SEO v22.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Day trip to St Bathans - Best Bits<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Day trip to St Bathans, Central Otago, awesome activities: heritage pub, town buildings, Blue Lake, Falls Dam...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nzjane.com\/day-trip-to-st-bathans\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Day trip to St Bathans - Best Bits\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Day trip to St Bathans, Central Otago, awesome activities: heritage pub, town buildings, Blue Lake, Falls Dam...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/nzjane.com\/day-trip-to-st-bathans\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Best Bits\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bestbitstravel\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-07-07T12:56:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-09-07T10:26:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/nzjane.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/st-bathans-new-zealand.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1440\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Sarah-Jane\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Sarah-Jane\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nzjane.com\/day-trip-to-st-bathans\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nzjane.com\/day-trip-to-st-bathans\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Sarah-Jane\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nzjane.com\/#\/schema\/person\/565d12295f57fb64d4bcb504ca6a231a\"},\"headline\":\"Day trip to St Bathans\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-07-07T12:56:15+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-09-07T10:26:46+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nzjane.com\/day-trip-to-st-bathans\/\"},\"wordCount\":5,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nzjane.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nzjane.com\/day-trip-to-st-bathans\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/nzjane.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/st-bathans-new-zealand.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Day trips\",\"Dunedin &amp; 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