Bridge to Nowhere: stunning walking in the Whanganui National Park

Kite-flying, dog-walking, swimming, or snoozing in the sunshine, Christchurch’s Sumner Beach offers everything you need for a summer’s day out. 

As far as window seats go, they don’t get much better than on the TranzAlpine, where the term ‘picture window’ takes on a whole new meaning. 

It's a pretty big achievement to be rated the best bit of 14,000km of coastline, but Ōhope managed to take the crown. 

The sand is a colour you simply have never seen before. The water is so blue it doesn’t actually look real.

A geothermal oasis in the heart of Whitianga, The Lost Spring is an ideal setting for indulgence. 

Northland's famous kauri, Tāne Mahuta may be up to 2500 years old which is really getting on, even in tree years.

Experience a remarkably diverse geothermal amphitheatre thousands of years in the making.

See the largest commercial drop zone in the world from the angle you're really meant to...

On the banks of the Waikato River, just north of Lake Taupō, you’ll find the unique attraction of Huka Prawn Park. 

Witness thousands of litres of water squeezing and surging through a 15-metre rocky gorge into heart-stirring rapids and a waterfall you'll be hard-pressed not to photograph.