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Six spectacular South Island road trips
Get your summer travel plans underway with these six road trips around the spectacular South Island.
Bridge to Nowhere: stunning walking in the Whanganui National Park
Walk or bike the Kaiwhakauka Track or navigate the Whanganui River to the Mangapūrua Landing then take a gentle 40-minute...
Forgotten World Highway: a rugged, beautiful drive
Doesn’t that just sound utterly attractive to the intrepid adventurer? Anything ‘forgotten’ demands immediate exploration.
15 Must-Do ideas for a long weekend getaway
Make the most of Queen’s Birthday – the last public holiday weekend before Spring – with some Must-Do escapes around...
Balloons over Waikato: a showcase of splendour and colour
They get to the point in this part of the world, but the simple factual accuracy of the event name...
Alpine Pacific Triangle: Christchurch to Kaikōura (and back again)
Christchurch is gorgeous. Its urbane, English-inflected rivers and stone buildings style landscape genteelly masks a southern spirit that has seen...
Farewell Spit: the longest natural sandbar in the world
When you first spot the spit on a map you just know you have to go there.
The Marlborough Wine & Food Festival: sauvignon blanc on its home turf
In February, it gets pretty hot down this way.
Larnach Castle: a vision of past and present
If you missed Larnach Castle on your trip out to wing it with the albatrosses, you must have been glued...
The Great Alpine Highway: Christchurch to Greymouth
This is a transcendent, transformational traverse whether travelled by train or by road.
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