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Activities & Adventures

North Island

The Better Side

Lake Tarawera East Shore

One side of Lake Tarawera will frustrate you with a touristy bustle fresh from the buried village. The other end of the lake will delight you with like-minded adventure folks, its quiet, its sunset, and its waterfall track. The Eastern-...

Natural Phenomenon

Rere Rockslide

HaHaHaHaHaHa, you're gonna laugh when you finally see this thing. Mother Nature, tired from creating such beauty down the road, decided to skip beauty and just create FUN here. Wow, Rere Rockslide...one minute a lazy unremarkable...

Waterfall Swimming Hole

Kaiate Falls

Kaiate (or Te Rerekawau)Falls is one of those “locals” places. A cool-as spot that locals love but guidebooks like Lonely Planet completely overlook. Even the DOC literature hardly inspires a visit. That’s why you have...

Scenic Waterfall

Te Reinga Falls

This off-the-beaten-path waterfall is massive— huge flow, multi-tiers, crescendo of sound, canyon o’ spray. World fame has somehow eluded this waterfall, but when Tourism NZ spreads the word about prehistoric dinosaur...

Monster Waterfall

Wairere Falls

These falls are…(here I go again)…a surprise spectacle, a marvelous magnificence! Unexpectedly, 14km east of Matamata’s Shiredoor Hobbitland, the Wairere stream leaps off a 152m escarpment as if it just can’t...

Excellent Headlands / Beach Loop

Mangawhai Cliffs Walkway

This walkway is one of the best coastal tracks on the entire island, it's that good! This is a two hour loop - half along the beach and its rocky coves, the other half contouring atop the cliffs. Like a coin you go from heads (Mangawhai...

Surf City NZ

Mt. Maunganui

The 'Mount' is surf City New Zealand. It's like a quintessential California beach town, only better. Better because there's an extinct volcano rising abruptly off this white sand beach and an artificial reef placed...

Lighthouse / Beach / Lagoon / Cave / Viewpoint

Castlepoint

I know you're wondering...is the drive worth it?? 67km in, no loop road out...is a visit to Castlepoint worth it? Yes, emphatically YES! Even Kiwi 'locals' are surprised how nice it actually is when they finally venture...

Gorgeous Waterfall

Rere Falls

Rere Falls is a beaut, but mostly overlooked by waterfall connoisseurs, even the NZ Waterfalls book. Maybe because it’s simply not near to any tourism-promoting township. It receives very little rah-rah outside of the “101...

Adjective Overload

Tongaporutu

Tongapurutu is a little-known dot on the north Taranaki map. It shouldn't be, but nobody promotes it because there's no commercial businesses nearby. It's captivating, it's breathtaking, it's run-on-the-beach-...

Geothermal Wonders Track

Rainbow Mountain

This is a fantastic and oft overlooked track. Undoubtedly (would you doubt me?) this is the finest viewpoint since the crater of Mt. Ngauruhoe. Really! This is why: first you’ve got a well-made track that brings...

Home To Lake Waikaremoana

Urewera National Park

The island’s largest stand of virgin forest is contained in the peculiarly named Urewera Nat’l Park (it’s named after a burnt penis—true, ask a ranger!) The primary attraction for most folks is vast Lake...

Remote, Historic Beach

Whatipu Beach

Whatipu is the most remote of the Waitakere’s road-end beaches. Other than the miles of beautiful solitude found here, you’ll also find a historically and geologically fascinating beach. In the late 1800s an elevated railway...

Hot Springs Waterfall Creek

Kerosene Creek

This hot spring oasis is sort of two-faced. On one hand Kerosene Creek can be the most beautiful, unique, and soothing place in the country…other times it can be a disgusting, rowdy, burglaryprone annoyance. K-...

Southern-Most Big Kauri

Tuahu Kauri

This giant may be the southernmost of the really big Kauris—this is the south end of their natural range. An easy walk will bring you within huggable proximity of this 2.7m-wide behemoth. If you’ve already seen the giants of...

Scenic Bay / Longest Wharf / Tracks & Kayaks

Tolaga Bay

Tolaga Bay is most famous for its “mile-long” 660m wharf—the tourist icon of the East Cape. While the wharf is scenic, long, picturesque, and dilapidated, this bay offer so much more. How ’bout sandstone cliffs...

Geologic Oddity

Putangirua Pinnacles

Towering spires and pinnacles highlight this unique “badlands” area.

Pick your way up the dry streambed and then veer into a left-side gully and you’ll find yourself suddenly surrounded by an eerie grey kingdom...

Stair-Step Waterfall

Fairy Falls

Fairy Falls is an idyllic fern-draped waterfall that tumbles nearly 100m in a continuous series of pools and drops. The popular track to the falls (especially weekends) is pretty steep, but well-maintained. Expect plenty of steps...

South Island

Man-Made Tunnel To Super-Scenic Beach Cove

Tunnel Beach

Tunnel Beach is more than simply a peculiar hand-carved tunnel leading down to a small low-tide-only sandy cove. While the tunnel, commissioned by civic luminary John Cargill in the 1870’s to provide his young daughters access to...

Home To Burt Munro, "The World's Fastest Indian"

Oreti Beach / Invercargill

Invercargill is home to The World’s Fastest Indian, both the movie and motorcycle. In the much-loved movie Sir Anthony Hopkins stars as local hero Burt Munro who purchased an Indian motorcycle in 1920 and then spent the...

Dramatic Headlands Route

Cape Farewell / Pillar Point Lighthouse Track

The 5km one-way headlands walk from Wharariki Beach carpark to the Pillar Point Lighthouse is possibly the most dramatic headlands walk on the South Island! This is an exceptional route—nowhere else on the South’s West coast...

A Scenic Limestone River Canyon Walk

Pororari River Canyon Track

This Pororari River track is a mostly-easy 45-minutes one-way walk through a wonderful limestone river canyon festooned with jungly sub-tropical rainforest on downstream end and temperate Beech forest on the upstream reaches— a...

South Island's Best Waterfall Outside Of Fiordland

Devil's Punchbowl Falls

Devil’s Punchbowl Falls is the must-see attraction of Arthur’s Pass. This waterfall is as near to perfect as you can ask for—high, mighty, and mesmerizing with numerous view vantages. High above Arthur’s Pass...

The South's Most Scenic Beach Walk

Motukiekie Beach Walk

Plan Ahead!! Low-Tide ONLY! Most every tourist on the South island has passed this short stretch of coast, but few stop, as few know about this coastline wonder-walk. The Motukiekie Coast, short as it is, may be the...

The Better Glacier Valley Walk

Franz Josef Glacier Valley Track

The Franz Josef Glacier Valley walk is the more interesting of the two glacier valley walks, and it seems less crowded since tourists are spread out over a longer distance than at Fox Glacier. It takes an easy 30 minutes from the...

Short Tracks To Iceberg Views

Tasman Glacier View Tracks

Glacier View Track: A Must-See! The 15-minute steep stepped-track to the top of the Tasman Glacier’s moraine ridge is amazing. The track is Steep, but the payoff is worth it! The view sweeps over the entire...

Scenic Lighthouse Photo-Op & Penguin Viewing

Nugget Point Lighthouse And Penguins

Nugget Point is the Catlin’s famed lighthouse tourist magnet, probably the South Island’s most scenic lighthouse location. It’s the one with the rocky “nuggets” studding the sea just east of the lighthouse...

Off-The-Beaten-Track Walking Beaches

Mapoutahi Heads / Doctors Point Beaches

Mapoutahi Head is the ridge that separates Purakaunui and Blueskin Bays north of Port Chalmers. Three long white sand beaches adorn the northfacing coastline here, with some intimate low-tide coves adding some pizzazz. The white sand...

The Best "Land's End" Spot To Visit

Waipapa Lighthouse / Shipwreck

The Waipapa Point Lighthouse is the southernmost lighthouse on the South Island, and even though it’s not quite as south as Slope Point, it’s more interesting to visit Waipapa than the no-frills no-interest Slope Pt*. The...

South Island's Best Day Walk

Hooker Valley Track

On a clear day, the Hooker Valley Track is indisputably the South Island’s most scenic day walk. Indisputably!! On a grey clouded-in day, forget it. This walk is all about soaring alpine views, so if the clouds are socked-in and...

Jurassic Playground With Mini-Dolphins

Curio Bay

There’s nowhere else on our planet like Curio Bay. A strong statement, yes, but there’s simply nowhere else in the world that you can watch happyhour penguins hop atop barnacle-encrusted petrified tree stumps after an...

Gorgeous Blue, Gorgeous View!!

Lake Tekapo

Lake Tekapo’s aquamarine blue color is simply beyond description. On a sunny day it’s jaw-drop, eye-boggling beautiful. You NEED to see it! On a grey day the beauty dims, but the blue opacity of the...

Photogenic Waterfalls

Catlins Waterfalls

Purakaunui Falls. (Purra-cow-nui) This is the most photogenic of the Catlins waterfalls, one avid waterfall photographers will love. For non-photographers though, the long drive for such a short excursion might not seem...

Gorgeous Multi-Viewpoint Loop Track

Sandymount / Lovers Leap / Chasm Loop Track

Sandymount’s loop track highlights the Otago Peninsula’s best views. From the carpark the track ascends 100m to the Sandymount Trig then loops around (counterclockwise) to visit the cliff-side viewpoints of Lovers Leap and...

Phantasmagoric Narnia Rockscape

Castle Hill

Castle Hill is a ridge of limestone boulders rising directly above SH 73 in the eastern foothills of the Southern Alps. The area is basically a fun maze of fabulously odd eroded grey limestone outcroppings. There are no marked tracks...

A Sculpted Punakaiki Beach Cove

Truman Track

The Truman track is a short track to a small lowtide- only beach that’s overlooked by most visitors to Paparoa in their haste to see the blowholes and then hurry on. Don’t miss the Truman track. Though it’s short, it...