New
Zealand Regions
To plan your time here you need answers to questions like:
"What's important?" "What's special? "Why should I go to this or that area?" "How does this relate to my special interests?"
To help answer some of those questions I've scribbled down the things that from years of wanderings I think might be useful to you.
North Island
- "history, sea, forests . . . all merged into a natural playground"
- "not for nothing do they call it The City of Sails"
- "a place where life doesn't travel at 1000kph"
- "tickle the soil with a hoe and it will laugh a harvest"
- "manicured farmlands and an inner-world Milky Way"
- "the fires of hell on earth and an introduction to Maori culture"
- "first place in the world to see each new-dawned day"
- "wine and fruit country, shearing contests and birds both rare and plentiful. . . "
- "one of the world's natural gardens . . . "
"the North Island's adventure centre and world famous trout fishing on Australasia's largest lake""
- "tall towers of a gleaming glass capital, a city that buzzes by night"
South Island
- "the wine and food capital of the country"
- "hops and crops and crafts"
- "Christchurch . . . a garden city more English than England
- "a heritage of mining shapes the land and the people"
- "magnificent mountains and picture-perfect lakes,
- "wineries, winter sports and the worlds most beautiful fighting machines""
- "the adventure centre of the Pacific"
- "the Antipodean Edinburgh "
- "a raw, elemental, awe-inspiring landscape"
- "of oysters, tuataras, bootleg hooch . . . and solitude"
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Home Page
All you need to know about a visit to the
place where God set the contrast and colour and man
hasn't fiddled with the dials.
Introduction
What, hopefully, you'll get out of this
mish-mash of peripatetic ramblings.
General Information
Background bumpf on the country.
Getting In
Visas, customs, immigration, duty free
shopping, and getting away from the airport. Bloody
important if you don't want to be arrested on arrival.
Getting Around
Moving on . . . by road or rail, by air or
by sea.
Accommodation
"nuff said.
The Regions
What to see, what to do, why to go there.
Special Interests
Diving, fishing, golf, rafting, sailing,
skiing - and more.
Home Page
All you need to know about a visit to the
place where God set the contrast and colour and man
hasn't fiddled with the dials.
Introduction
What, hopefully, you'll get out of this
mish-mash of peripatetic ramblings.
General Information
Background bumpf on the country.
Getting In
Visas, customs, immigration, duty free
shopping, and getting away from the airport. Bloody
important if you don't want to be arrested on arrival.
Getting Around
Moving on . . . by road or rail, by air or
by sea.