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Marlborough Sounds: unspoilt wilderness

Marlborough must have been an amazing place to visit in the last Ice Age, when a fair chunk of the...


The great river valleys of ancient Marlborough produced the internationally renowned sounds. © Westend61

Marlborough Wine Trail

You don’t have to go too far back– a matter of 30 years or so – to find yourself contemplating...

Loved by the locals: Upper Hutt

One of the best things about the Hutt Valley, in general, is that a river runs through it, and quite...

Central Otago: good curling to ye

No one really knows where the peculiar sport of curling originated, but there’s no doubt it was the Scots who...

Auckland Sky Tower

Fun fact: took 28,000 tonnes of concrete to build Auckland’s Sky Tower.

The Forgotten World Highway

Here’s a word to the wise: if your fuel gauge is anywhere below halfway by the time you reach Stratford,...

Queenstown: aboard the TSS Earnslaw

Lake Wakatipu was once home to a number of steam-driven watercraft, in the days before road-building in the Lakes District...

Wainui Beach: sunrises without peer

Because he came from the west, Cook encountered the eastern side of the North Island of New Zealand’s North Island first.

Ulva Island: birdwatchers’ paradise

There’s something disturbingly anatomical about Ulva Island’s name, so it probably comes as something of a relief to learn it...

Waitomo Caves: one of the wonders of the world

Crawling through holes in rock with mere inches of wriggle room on either side, the only illumination cast by your...


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