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New Zealand Travel Guide
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Trip Planning
About
New Zealand Travel Guide
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    The West Coast is possibly my favourite part of New Zealand. I can never fully choose between beach and mountains and the West Coast lets me have both, with rainforest and lagoons and sky blue rivers into the bargain. At the end of summer I drove d
    Over one week in March - a single glorious week that unfurled as sunny day after sunny day - we hiked into Nelson Lakes National Park, looking for mountain huts, wild campsites and tarns of turquoise green. It’s amazing how easily time passes
    A few photos from Great Barrier Island, where my most enduring impression might be of empty roads, many of them leading to beaches, or campgrounds by beaches. How precious to still have places like this in Aotearoa, where the driver of almost every
    My favourite parts of New Zealand will almost always be the ones that are the hardest to get to; ones like the very northern tip of the Coromandel Peninsula, where you have to drive for hours on a gravel road that narrows to one way and skirts right

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