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Thermal Explorer Highway: Auckland to Napier
How about an epic roadie straight down the guts, as they say, to the land where the languid meandering of...
Inland Scenic Route 72: Christchurch loop
Round trips are immensely satisfying. There’s a pleasing symmetry in ending up back where you started, a closing of the...
The Great Alpine Highway: Christchurch to Greymouth
This is a transcendent, transformational traverse whether travelled by train or by road.
Climbing: facing your fear
Fear. It can be irrational. Paralysing. Occasionally insightful.
Waitomo Caves: one of the wonders of the world
Crawling through holes in rock with mere inches of wriggle room on either side, the only illumination cast by your...
Auckland Sky Tower
Fun fact: took 28,000 tonnes of concrete to build Auckland’s Sky Tower.
Clutha: a land of giants
If you’re reading this you’re a certain kind of traveller: one who knows how the vagaries of unpredictable weather can...
Marlborough Sounds: unspoilt wilderness
Marlborough must have been an amazing place to visit in the last Ice Age, when a fair chunk of the...
Adventure time: embracing the laws of physics in Rotorua
In the Winter Olympics luge event, the athlete reclines on a light toboggan that he or she pilots down the...
Whanganui Journey: paddle your own canoe
The Whanganui Journey is one of DOC's Great Walks, but it is less of a walk and more of a paddle.
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