Road trips are not often leisurely or spontaneous when you have kids on board.

Nearly a century after the goldminers, and decades after the bushmen who extracted kauri from the rainforest blanketing the rugged...

Rail was once meant to be the backbone of the New Zealand economy.

Situated at the base of the Coromandel Range, the Karangahake Gorge Historic Walkway follows the old railway line between Paeroa...

Arthur’s Pass National Park lies in the heart of the Southern Alps Ka Tiritiri o te Moana.

The flats toward the headwaters of the Hutt River (named after the Chairman of the New Zealand Company, Sir William...

Lower Hutt: a river runs through it, called – as you’d expect – the Hutt River, although it was known...

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

The broad area around Tongariro National Park must have been a majestic place when Māori enjoyed undisturbed possession.

At 152km long, the Otago Central Rail Trail – New Zealand’s original Great Ride – sounded appealing but I hoped...