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New Zealand holidays

February 2024

  • The Hundertwasser Art Centre

    ‘Time caught up with his visions’: Friedensreich Hundertwasser’s New Zealand legacy

    A series of unfortunate events led to muted coverage of the architect’s eye-opening gallery in regional New Zealand. But 24 years after his death, Hundertwasser’s work is more prescient than ever

September 2023

  • Halfmoon Bay and Oban. Boats bobbing in the water are a frequent sight in Halfmoon Bay in Oban, the only town on Stewart Island.

    Southern exposure: New Zealand’s Stewart Island cooks its way through a tourism boom

    With seven food businesses and a population of 400, New Zealand’s southernmost island has a restaurant density that could rival a major city

October 2022

  • A pair of takahē peck the ground under a trail marking at Orokonui Ecosanctuary, near Dunedin, a bushwalker is seen in the background.

    A birdwatching trip back in time: ‘What pre-mammal New Zealand would’ve been like’

    Just outside Dunedin, kākā chatter, ancient lizards hatch their eggs, and baby kiwis fatten up to fighting weight in a predator-free sanctuary

April 2022

  • A climber on Mitre Peak escapes the buzz of helicopters, planes, tourist launches and cruise liners that fill Milford Sound.

    New Zealand seeks a greener kind of tourism as it reopens borders after Covid

    Spots like Milford Sound that once ‘heaved’ with visitors recovered their tranquillity during lockdown – and ministers hope to keep it that way

April 2021

  • The Tongariro Chateau Hotel near Whakapapa on New Zealand’s North Island.

    Around the globe, across the pond: New Zealand destinations that feel like a world tour

  • Glenorchy, Lake Wakatipu, Otaga, South Island, New Zealand<br>Glenorchy, Lake Wakatipu, Otaga, South Island, New Zealand

    Prepare the bubble! New Zealand travel, recommended by Kiwis

September 2020

  • heading south, not far from Picton. It's probably around 8am and I've barely slept in the past 24 hours. A photo by Sam Coley, the author of State Highway One.

    I used to shrug off the beauty of New Zealand. Then I drove from the top to the bottom

    State Highway One runs from the North Island to the South. It cured Sam Coley of homesickness – and changed his understanding of home

May 2020

  • The Trout, and other bars, along Ardmore Street in Wanaka, a resort town on New Zealand’s South Island.

    Life after lockdown in New Zealand: a night out in Wanaka

  • The Aoraki Mackenzie International Dark Sky Reserve

    What's inside your bubble? Remote and dreamy New Zealand-Aotearoa destinations – in pictures

July 2019

  • Larnach Castle on the ridge of the Otago peninsula near Dunedin

    Bellbirds, books and baroque architecture: visiting New Zealand’s oldest city Dunedin

    The South Island destination has gothic buildings and golden beaches, with plenty of wildlife, delicious food and live music

February 2019

  • Whanganui river, New Zealand

    Mystic river: Canoeing a living entity in New Zealand

    The Whanganui is so important in Maori culture it has the legal rights of a person. A canoe trip along its forested valley proves a great way of getting to know it

November 2018

  • The Coastal Pacific runs next to the ocean and in the shadow of the Kaikoura mountains.

    New Zealand's Coastal Pacific railway back on track after Kaikoura earthquake

    South Island’s scenic Christchurch to Picton rail journey reopens on Saturday after earthquake damage led to closure in 2016

October 2018

  • Sir Peter Jackson helps fight to put New Zealand back on world maps – video

    Comic Rhys Darby, Lord of the Rings director Sir Peter Jackson and Jacinda Ardern feature in Tourism New Zealand’s latest bid to fight the ‘conspiracy’ keeping New Zealand off world maps

June 2018

  • A kiwi sign by a country road

    New Zealand to tax tourists to visit – but Australians will get in free

  • Mount Taranaki and in the foreground the Waiwhakaiho River and city of New Plymouth.

    Mount Taranaki: will the New Zealand peak’s ‘living person’ status bring respect?

May 2018

  • new zealand night sky

    The star quality of New Zealand’s Great Barrier Island

  • New Zealand is repeatedly left off maps of the globe, a situation Jacinda Ardern wants to address

    Jacinda Ardern asks why New Zealand is left off world maps in new tourism campaign

January 2018

  • Walking the Milford Track: New Zealand's most popular trail

    The Milford Track is the jewel in New Zealand’s ‘great’ walks crown, and is the most popular of the nation’s nine walks. But with thousands of tourists tramping the route each year, the unspolied beauty of the track is in danger of being compromised.
  • Walkers in the shadow of Mount Elliot at The Mackinnon Pass.

    'World’s finest walk': New Zealand’s Milford Track being spoiled by tourist hordes

    Epic trail in the wild south was once a path to inner peace but popularity has trampled its tranquillity
  • Northern-Explorer--Leaving-National-Park--CR2017 (1) copy

    Passing panorama: New Zealand’s glory from a train window

    Thirty years after the TranzAlpine was launched, Susan Grossman boards one of the world’s most scenic trains at Christchurch, before completing her trip on North Island’s Northern Explorer
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