New Plymouth: welcome to Taradise

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

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

The entire eastern coastline of the Coromandel Peninsula is studded with jewel-like beaches.

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

Wellington poet Amelia Nurse has written about ‘the lake effect’ – the noticeable calming and smoothing of the ripples in...

You might be forgiven for thinking Farewell Spit is named for the last thing Abel Tasman did as he high-tailed...

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

The most obviously dubious aspect of Doubtful Sound is its name because as everyone knows, it’s actually a fiord, carved...

The local iwi, Ngāti Whātua, were the first to scope Takapuna, Takarunga and Takaroro – the three volcanic cones at...