Bridge to Nowhere: stunning walking in the Whanganui National Park

Cycling Auckland’s waterfront makes for a flat, entertaining and family-friendly ride. 

With more malts, hops and mash than you can shake a stick at, Wellington is undeniably the capital city of craft beer.

Autumn. That’s the time to visit. Much of this part of the South Island takes on a splendid glow at that time of year. None more so than Arrowtown which is, frankly, already right off the cutesy scale as it is. 

Drive the length of the South Island, skirting the West Coast and traversing through the Southern Alps, and experience bountiful roadtripping at its very best.

If you want to take in Fiordland’s wilderness, vastness and beauty without being drenched in that seemingly perpetual rain, take the Piopiotahi Highway.

Soak in naturally heated mineral pools while you look out over the lake, take a twilight mud bath, or bathe under a waterfall in a natural hot spring.

You may well not be aware of it, but we all own this beach. Well, kinda.

The Hikurangi Trench off the coast of Kaikōura is home to a wealth of deep-sea marine life, including orca, blue and humpback whales. 

Not much has changed in the view from the Hermitage from the day it was opened in 1884. Jagged, snowy peaks in every direction and the fast-flowing Hooker River outside the front door.

Embrace nineteenth-century New Zealand and discover the place where Māori and Europeans first lived side by side.