Mount Taranaki: picture-perfect peak

The proper Māori name of Mauao – or ‘the Mount’, as most New Zealanders tend to call it these days...

The great high tussock plains beyond the first range of mountains bordering the Canterbury region are collectively known as the...

Those who have enough trouble staying on their feet in skis or on a snowboard in optimal conditions will wonder...

As you go south, twilight lengthens.

Ask anyone with salt-draggled hair and the odd piercing where the best surf break in New Zealand is and there’s...

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

Mountain bikes are forbidden from the Abel Tasman National Park – all except for one section, the Rameka Track from...

The biggest lake in Australasia announced its arrival with a bang.

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