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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.


The drive from Queenstown to Glenorchy is stunning.

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.

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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