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• Taranaki's gardens: a sight to make the heart sing

  https://www.aa.co.nz/travel/editorial/taranakis-gardens-a-sight-to-make-the-heart-sing/

  Where, asks an old song, have all the flowers gone?

• Hanmer Springs: alpine adventures and indulgence

  https://www.aa.co.nz/travel/editorial/hanmer-springs/

  There’s only one thing better than lounging in soft mineral water heated by thermal springs and that’s lying in soft mineral water heated by thermal springs when the ground around...

• Fox and Franz Josef Glaciers

  https://www.aa.co.nz/travel/editorial/fox-and-franz-josef-glaciers/

  Many of the crinklier bits of New Zealand’s geography were formed by the slow but insistent action of glaciers.

• Nelson kaimoana: enjoy the catch of the day

  https://www.aa.co.nz/travel/editorial/nelson-kai-moana-enjoy-the-catch-of-the-day/

  Funnily enough, the original European residents of what came to be known as Nelson (after a certain admiral) didn’t want to be there at all.

• Devonport and North Head: Victorian village meets mysterious fort

  https://www.aa.co.nz/travel/editorial/devonport-and-north-head/

  The local iwi, Ngāti Whātua, were the first to scope Takapuna, Takarunga and Takaroro – the three volcanic cones at the end of the northern headland of Auckland’s Waitematā Harbour...

• Dunedin City: Edinburgh of the south

  https://www.aa.co.nz/travel/editorial/dunedin-city-edinburgh-of-the-south/

  ‘Dunedin’ is an ancient name for Edinburgh and the resemblance doesn’t stop at the names.

• Hot Water Beach: dig your own spa pool

  https://www.aa.co.nz/travel/editorial/hot-water-beach/

  The entire eastern coastline of the Coromandel Peninsula is studded with jewel-like beaches. The sand is white, the pōhutukawa crimson, the water warm and clear...

• Central Otago: good curling to ye

  https://www.aa.co.nz/travel/editorial/central-otago-good-curling-to-ye/

  No one really knows where the peculiar sport of curling originated, but there’s no doubt it was the Scots who took it to their heart and kept it there when...

• Doubtful Sound: powerful serenity

  https://www.aa.co.nz/travel/editorial/doubtful-sound/

  The most obviously dubious aspect of Doubtful Sound is its name because as everyone knows, it’s actually a fiord, carved from the mountains by the action of a glacier long...

• Farewell Spit: a sandy phenomenon

  https://www.aa.co.nz/travel/editorial/farewell-spit/

  You might be forgiven for thinking Farewell Spit is named for the last thing Abel Tasman did as he high-tailed it out of Murderers’ Bay (now bearing the more marketing-savvy...