Olveston House: how the other half lived

‘The most accessible wildlife in the South Island’ is the catch-cry here.

As one of the country’s most famous walks, let’s get the house – (or hut) – keeping out of the...

The Otago Central Rail Trail is an achievement, an acknowledgement that it’s not just hardy souls and fitness nuts who...

The drive the start of the Rob Roy Glacier Track, the slightly preposterous-sounding Raspberry Creek Car Park, is almost as...

OK, so climbing a hill, when you’re surrounded by mountains, is kinda like finding a dry rock in your peanut...

Autumn. That’s the time to visit.

Is there a more amazing drive? Forty-five minutes of emerald lake water and bush-clad hills, against a backdrop of snow-touched mountains.

Slightly eccentric, Ōamaru is one of those not-as-it-first-seems places.

Not much has changed of the view from the Hermitage from the day it was opened in 1884.