"As I recline on the ground my back supported by two bolsters, my legs wrapped in place by a rolled-up blanket, my torso covered by another blanket, over my eyes a folded hand towel, I can only marvel that this is not what I had expected at all...."
The Best Travel Writing About New Zealand
In addition to our collection of fabulous hotels - and their equally fabulous reviews - Travel Intelligence is built upon some of the finest travel writing on the web. So, to find a range of travel writing about New Zealand and general New Zealand travel tips, you just need to browse the selection of travel articles below...
Articles about New Zealand
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Delicious – A Yoga Retreat in the Coromandel
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Yvonne Van Dongen
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New Zealand
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North Island
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Coromandel
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Little Britain: A Tour of Wairarapa, New Zealand
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Yvonne Van Dongen
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New Zealand
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North Island
"The fields of the Wairarapa are soft and luminously green fringed with frothy hawthorn, purple-candled polonia and the stalky remnants of dying daffodils. Calves rest in pools of sunshine while in the distance the hills gently dip and roll...."
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Marching into Mordor: Trekking the Tongariro Crossing
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Yvonne Van Dongen
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New Zealand
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North Island
"The only thing worse than doing the Tongariro Crossing in bad weather is doing it in perfect weather. In bad weather been-there friends and guidebooks warn you to be prepared to throw on duvet-thick layers of clothing in a heartbeat or risk..."
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Seeing New Zealand with Kiwi Dundee
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Simon Heptinstall
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New Zealand
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North Island
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Coromandel
"We drove as far as the four-wheel drive truck would take us, then trekked on through the dank, dripping rainforest on foot. Along the floor of the gorge in New Zealand's Coromandel Peninsular exotic plants shone with slippery humidity, colourful..."
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A Walk on the Wild Side
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Bruce Holmes
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New Zealand
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South Island
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Fiordland National Park
"As our boat crossed Lake Te Anau toward New Zealand’s wilderness there was time to contemplate our looming adventure, hiking the legendary Milford Track with guiding group Ultimate Hikes in the last weeks of their season. Would I be fit enough? Had..."
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Lion Rock
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Garth Cartwright
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New Zealand
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North Island
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Piha Beach
"This article is no longer available on Travel Intelligence. Please carry on browsing our selection of travel writing, though. See all travel..."
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Hiking the Milford
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Yvonne Van Dongen
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New Zealand
"The easiest part of walking the Milford track is getting other people to join you. Barely a week after the idea was tossed off at a summer barbeque over 20 friends from Auckland, Christchurch and Dunedin had agreed to fulfill their before-I-die..."
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Taupo Volcanic Zone
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Andrew Bain
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New Zealand
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North Island
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Taupo
"In AD 186 Roman and Chinese writers recorded months of blood-red sunsets, the sky stained with volcanic ash. What they were witnessing was not the blast of a Sicilian or Kamchatkan volcano but the world’s largest volcanic explosion of the last 5000..."
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Kiwi Coach Potato Syndrome
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John Borthwick
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New Zealand
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North Island
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Rotorua
"Clutching his old plastic travel bag Norman Gunston, that one-man Aussie razor gang, used to swear he suffered not from jet lag but bus lag. I know the feeling. It strikes on day two of our six-day coach tour of the North Island of New Zealand. Each..."
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Diving the Milford Sound
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Daniel Scott
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New Zealand
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South Island
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Fiordland National Park
"It is shortly after we’ve emerged from our first dive in Milford Sound when I am forced to do a reality check. For a moment, everything seems quite normal. In a sheltered cove, the small dive boat we are sitting in wobbles slightly..."
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