New Zealand

Driving from Auckland up to Paihia and Waitangi in Northland, we took frequent breaks along the way to check out some of the sights our guidebook suggested. Here are some of the things to do in Northland, highly recommended road trip stopovers! Hundertwasser Toilets in Kawakawa The top 10 things to do in Northland, according […]

Shrouded in legends, the Moeraki Boulders are a South Island natural tourist attraction en route from Oamaru to Dunedin. The Moeraki Boulders are rock formations, round in shape, and lie on Koekohe Beach in northern Otago. They look like otherworldly spheres of rock that were cut in half and arbitrarily placed on the beach. Many […]

Lake Tekapo is one of the South Island of New Zealand’s prime tourist destinations. I wasn’t aware of that when I was in New Zealand for the first time. My plan was to just make the trip from Christchurch to Queenstown in one day; that’s about 480km of driving through Canterbury and Otago. Lake Tekapo […]

So you’re a fair-weather hiker, and your tour of New Zealand’s amazing landscapes is a bit interrupted by rain or bad weather? Well, you might have not come to New Zealand to be indoors, but in terms of museums, there is quite a lot to be discovered in Aotearoa, no matter what corner of the […]

There are plenty of reasons to visit Curio Bay in the Catlins. But travellers who are conscious of their limited time in New Zealand may opt for the more marketed attractions on the regular tourist routes. And they’re missing out. Bigtime. Granted, Curio Bay isn’t somewhere you just pop over to from a major South […]