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Hiring a car looks simpler and costs less. Here is an honest look at what the South Island's roads are...
The South Island stood in for much of Middle-earth. Where the most memorable scenes were filmed, what you will actually...
A straight answer on what guided touring in New Zealand costs, what the price actually buys, and how to compare...
Fifteen years on from the earthquakes, Christchurch is a young city rebuilt to its own taste. The memorials, the cardboard...
The glacier coast is a full journey, not a day out. Arthur's Pass, Hokitika pounamu, Franz Josef and Fox as...
Bud burst, helicopters fighting frost at dawn, and shoot thinning by hand. What is happening in the Waipara Valley between...
Six to twelve months for summer, two to four for shoulder, four to six weeks in winter. Why guides and...
Twelve hours door to door, and the drive is half the experience. The Eglinton Valley, the Homer Tunnel kea, Mitre...
Thermal pools, redwood forest and the limestone country of Weka Pass, 90 minutes north of Christchurch. An honest look at...
Forty five minutes along Lake Wakatipu from Queenstown, the road reaches Glenorchy and keeps going to Paradise. The lookouts, the...
September to November is when Christchurch earns its name. Daffodils, blossom, lambs and snowmelt, plus an honest word about the...
Bespoke sounds vague until you see the process. The first conversation, how a route gets built around what you actually...
Twenty five minutes from Queenstown, Gibbston grows Pinot Noir at the southern edge of the wine world. What makes it...
Christchurch sits beside two eroded volcanoes whose craters the sea flooded to make Lyttelton and Akaroa harbours. The geology, the...
Many travellers assume New Zealand's best scenery is reserved for the very fit. It is not. The flat tracks with...
The best preserved gold town in New Zealand sits twenty minutes up a side valley from Queenstown. The 1862 rush,...
Your ship berths at Lyttelton and sails before dinner. What a Christchurch port day realistically holds: the city and gardens,...
How many days you really need, the two ways to travel the Christchurch to Queenstown spine, where to build in...
Six walks in Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park, honestly compared: how long each takes, how hard it really is, and what...
A local's guide to where to stay in Christchurch, area by area, and a straight answer to the question every...
Tekapo sits inside one of the world's largest gold tier dark sky reserves. What you can see overhead, why the...
By hour six of a day through the alps, the vehicle is most of the experience. What our Mercedes-Benz Sprinters...
State Highway 1 runs north from Christchurch to a coast where whales feed within sight of snow. The route, the...
Many multi-day South Island operators pass guests between regional drivers. We do not. Here is what one guide for the...