New Zealand is famous for its thermal activity – we have hot pools, hot water beaches, hot water waterfalls, hot water streams, boiling mud pools, and an entire city with steam and boiling water that randomly comes up out of the ground. If you enjoy sitting back in a nice warm tub and soaking your…
If you’re near Taupo and looking for a peaceful and relaxing time with a yummy (hopefully) ending then I would check out Huka Prawn Park. New Zealand’s only prawn park is unique to say the least. It is basically a park with several ponds that are filled with a combination of water from the Waikato…
I read an article from Lonely Planet a few years ago about the top 10 marine encounters in the world. Two of them are in New Zealand and three are in Australia.
The Northland Region in New Zealand is often referred to as the ‘Winterless North’ – it is the farthest north of the 16 NZ regions and the warmest. You could call it the People-less North as well since it’s not a widely populated part of the country. It has 168,300 people all up with 55,000…
A ‘hangi’ in New Zealand can be a pit that is used to cook food by heating stones, the food that is cooked in such a pit, or the meal or gathering where hangi food is cooked in a hangi pit :-). Hangis are a Maori tradition – the food is cooked by digging a…
We have been talking about going to Antarctica for a few years now, it’s the only continent I haven’t yet visited and definitely on my bucket list. But until I get there, the International Antarctic Centre will have to do. The Centre is in Christchurch and is part of a large complex that was built…
We decided to make a road trip this weekend and head up to Cape Reinga, the Northern-most tip of New Zealand — it’s about a six hour drive from Auckland so I hadn’t made it up that far before. I’ll post more about the cape in a few days but we opted to take a longer…
If you head about two and a half hours North of Auckland on Highway 1, you will likely be confused and at a loss for words upon seeing a brown sign with the words “Hundertwasser Toilets” and an arrow pointing to the exit.
About two hours North of Wellington on highway 1 (not too far from Palmerston North) is the lovely town of Foxton. We have driven through Foxton many times when travelling between Wellington and Auckland but didn’t really stop until a few months ago when my sister was with us. My partner mentioned the town had…
If you take the ferry to the South Island, you’ll leave Wellington and arrive in the town of Picton. Picton is relatively small with just 4,330 people. It is one of the Easternmost towns in the South Island. Last summer, we spent three weeks exploring the South Island and of course started in Picton since…