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• Mount Tarawera: sleeping giant

  https://www.aa.co.nz/travel/editorial/mount-tarawera/

  Lake Tarawera, at the foot of the ruins of Mount Tarawera, is the site of New Zealand’s creepiest ghost story.

• Kāpiti Island: birds of paradise

  https://www.aa.co.nz/travel/editorial/kapiti-island/

  If you’ve got anything resembling a soft spot for the native birdlife of this country – and what Kiwi doesn’t – it’d break your heart to read the accounts of...

• Cook Strait crossing: one of the most beautiful in the world

  https://www.aa.co.nz/travel/editorial/cook-strait-crossing-one-of-the-most-beautiful-in-the-world/

  Anyone who has ever done a road trip of New Zealand will have indelible memories of their Cook Strait crossing.

• Punakāiki Pancake Rocks: geological marvel

  https://www.aa.co.nz/travel/editorial/punakaiki-pancake-rocks-geological-marvel/

  Funny that Māori should have had a word that sounded so much like the English word for ‘pancakes.’ Funnier yet that it should have been applied to a place where...

• Hollyford Valley: not your average walk

  https://www.aa.co.nz/travel/editorial/hollyford-valley/

  Less popular than the nearby Milford and Routeburn tracks, the Hollyford Valley is nonetheless one of the South Island’s great tramping experiences.

• Marlborough Sounds: unspoilt wilderness

  https://www.aa.co.nz/travel/editorial/marlborough-sounds/

  Marlborough must have been an amazing place to visit in the last Ice Age, when a fair chunk of the Southern Ocean was locked up in the Antarctic icebox.

• Lake Matheson: the perfect mirror

  https://www.aa.co.nz/travel/editorial/lake-matheson-the-perfect-mirror/

  If you find yourself on the West Coast in a reflective mood, you’ll also find you’re in good company.

• Westland: land of ice dragons

  https://www.aa.co.nz/travel/editorial/westland-land-of-ice-dragons/

  Some locals say that people who move to Westland are either running away or in search of something.

• New Chums Beach: a slice of heaven

  https://www.aa.co.nz/travel/editorial/new-chums-beach-a-slice-of-heaven/

  The east coast of the Coromandel Peninsula has more than its fair share of pretty beaches.

• Night skiing at Coronet Peak

  https://www.aa.co.nz/travel/editorial/edirorial-winter-day-time-night-time-this-mountain-that-mountain/

  Those who have enough trouble staying on their feet in skis or on a snowboard in optimal conditions will wonder why the hell you’d want to do it at night.