Explore New Zealand

If you have decided to explore New Zealand as a travel destination for your next holiday, I hope this site will help your planning and make this holiday the best ever with practical advice and some fantastic ideas for activities and places to visit.

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By offering an insight through my personal experiences of travel in New Zealand, I hope to help you plan your holiday of a lifetime.

This country certainly stands out as one of the unique holiday destinations of the world.

Lonely Planet's Best in Travel: top 10 regions for 2012 includes Queenstown and the Southern Lakes in the list.

Lonely Planet's New Zealand travel guide also salutes New Zealanders' "welcoming warmth" and "the average Kiwi will genuinely want you to have a really, really good time".

I'll second that. Most New Zealanders are really friendly and in my experience go out of their way to make sure you have a great time visiting this awesome country!

The natural scenic beauty of New Zealand and range of so many activities, from the mild and relaxing to absolutely extreme, that you can't fail to find things to do and see that suit you.

This is a paradise for your holiday memories, and that famous NZ hospitality where friendly people go out of their way to make you feel welcome.

New Zealand Travel Methods of transport available for exploring NZ.

New Zealand Money Find out about the currency and exchange rate.

New Zealand Seasons Choose the best time of year for you to travel with these details about the seasons in NZ.

New Zealand Weather Is the seasonal weather right for your vacation activities?

New Zealand Time The best time to phone New Zealand to contact travel companies and make your bookings.

Tourist Information

New Zealand Earthquake ~ Resources

New Zealand National Parks Discover what sorts of activities are waiting for you in some of the most unspoilt landscapes in the world.

Explore New Zealand National Parks

Note About Language and Spelling

In some countries languages the spelling of New Zealand is different. Some examples are Zeeland, Zeland, and Zealnd. Occasionally people also put the two words together when doing a search on the web... such as NewZealand.

British English is maintained throughout this site as that is what is used in NZ. This means that you may think some words do not have the correct spelling because they look unfamiliar, such as 'travelling'.