From the Catlins in the East to Fiordland in the West, New Zealand’s Southland region is a land of rugged coastline, rolling plains, towering cliffs and ancient glaciers. It’s a…

For those of you who have visited New Zealand I think you will agreed with the title of this post.  Here in the US, on many a menu you will…

This unfurling New Zealand fern, or koru, is a perfect representation of “Renewal.”  The koru, Maori for “spiral” or “loop,” symbolizes growth, strength and peace, as well as new life….

Below is our photo montage from our first RTW trip in 2008-09.  I’m hoping to inspire myself to get to work on a video from our latest trip. We hope…

Why head back to the city so soon when we could have one more pretty drive in the country?  We spent our last day and a half on the Coromandel…

Though we were sorely tempted to join in some caving, abseil, blackwater rafting adventures in Waitomo, time and money were short, so we opted for a long walk followed by…

Population-wise Rotorua is a big city (over 70,000 or so).  We were advised it might seem overly commercial for our liking, but we wanted to experience the often talked about…

After our Alpine Crossing we needed a day of taking it easy, so we head to the thermal pools near Taupo.  I had a very relaxing mud wrap and massage…

From a base in Ohakune (carrot capital of NZ, and a huge ski and snoboarding center in winter), we did an amazing 19.4k walk called the Tongariro Alpine Crossing, in…

Kaikoura had some of the most beautiful scenery yet!  The snowy mountain-peaked background and an almost impossibly aquamarine sea sparkling in the foreground was truly magnificent.  We had some lovely…