Those unfamiliar with New Zealand geography are often surprised to find the Waikato River, which they first met at Taupō...

As the probable landing place of the first waka ever to visit New Zealand, Marlborough is the home of the...

It’s a frosty morning in the deep South and I’m staying at a central B&B in Dunedin.

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

Richmond has a large mall, serving the surrounding Waimea Plains, with plenty of cafes, big-box shopping stores and a busy downtown.

Christchurch is gorgeous. Its urbane, English-inflected rivers and stone buildings style landscape genteelly masks a southern spirit that has seen...

There is a magical place in New Zealand where the mountains literally meet the sea – as if a fairytale...

There was a time, not so long ago in the grand scale of things, when the whale-watching industry in New...

The alternate road heading south from Auckland, along the Firth of Thames, is a quiet, visual treat with lots to...

If you were to assume that Te Ika a Māui – the Great Fish of Māui – was a species...