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Adventure time: Rere rock slide
We’ll let you in on a little secret here, so long as you promise not to let it go any further.
The not-so-distant summit: day hikes to mountain tops
Kiwi poet John Newton once wrote that mountains are 'a story you tell about yourself, a story you are journeying...
Northwest Waikato: surfing the endless wave
In the 1966 cult surfing movie Endless Summer, filmmaker Bruce Brown follows two surfers, Mike Hynson and Robert August, on...
Southern Lakes: a place for all seasons
In the constellation of New Zealand’s most scenic places and star attractions, the Southern Lakes region burns so brightly that,...
Lake Taupō: how did we get so lucky?
It really is all about the lake in this part of the world.
Stewart Island Rakiura: the other (third) island
It was a slate grey day in Bluff.
Te Urewera: the national park that isn’t
Te Urewera, the mountainous homeland of Ngāi Tūhoe, the Children of the Mist, spent 60 years as a national park...
South Westland: a wonder of the world
You won’t be bothered by sandflies on Mount Everest, or in the Grand Canyon, or even on the Great Barrier Reef.
Westland: land of ice dragons
Some locals say that people who move to Westland are either running away or in search of something.
The Blue Pools of Haast Pass
Māori knew about the glacial defile between the coastal flats of South Westland and the high tussock-land surrounding the southern...
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