hey
hejyttsr /
cnbbufiyv I got asked questions about NZ a lot and wrote down what I did in my
2.5y there in a document. not all of this might be relevant for you but maybe something sticks out:
```There are 9, now 10, Great Walks of New Zealand by the Department of Conservation (DoC). They are really well maintained. Not cheap but definitely worth it if you can and they are not already booked out.
South Island
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Nelson Area
- Abel Tasman National Park Instead of 3 day hike, park your car at the end and take a boat about 1 day walk in and hike back. Or go the other way around and organize boat pickup.
- Motueka Skydive Abel Tasman
- Pretty drive up to Golden Bay Caves with Kiwi & Moa fossils, LOTR filming site
Highway 1 down to ChCh:
- Kaikoura legendary fresh lobster / seafood
Mountain Passes really beautiful drives / rides with motorbike
- Lewis Pass
- Arthurs Pass
Christchurch:
- meh, cities are not what you come to NZ for
- take one of NZs 3 train rides to Greymouth and back, very scenic but there's nothing at the other end, so you gotta go back
- Lyttelton, kind of a cute little harbor town that has paragliding (Taylors Mistake beach)
- Akaroa peninsula
Between ChCh and Dunedin
- Moeraki Boulders weirdly shaped rocks...
- Oamaru Steampunk HQ Museum
Dunedin:
- University town, not much happening on holidays
- Tunnel beach
South of South island
- Catlins Forest Park Beautiful Hiking
- Curio Bay Dolphins
- Bluff southernmost town and nearby southernmost point
- Milford Sound Cruise (dolphins with any luck), kayaking, underwater observatory, Scuba Diving in the fjord.
- Te Anau Milford Track & Kepler Track start
Queenstown / Wanaka:
- Paragliding / Hanggliding
- Skydiving
- Gondola + Louge
- Fine dining
- Speedboat
- Hiking,
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- Skiing (Double/Triple Cone, Cordrona, Coronet Peak)
- Arrowtown
- Bungee jumping / 100m drop swing
- Onsen Hotpools
- Indoor Skydiving (wind tunnel)
- VR Games
Rest of middle / West Coast
- Hemner Springs Hotsprings / water park
- Lake Tekapo Stargazing (black sky reserve)
- Aoraki / Mount Cook Highest mountain in NZ, only hotel inside a national park, glaciers, amazing heli flights
- Franz Josef (has skydiving) & Fox Glacier
- Just the drive up Highway 6 from ~ Greymouth to Westport is incredibly beautiful
- Punakaiki / Pancake rocks
North Island
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Wellington
- Greatest little capital, lots of culture and food
- Te Papa (National Museum)
- Zealandia (bird sanctuary)
- ...
Hawks Bay (Napier / Hastings)
- Wine tasting
- Bird colonies
- Te Mata Peak
West Coast
- Taranaki, weirdly round mountain
- Forgotten highway (State Highway 43)
Taupo
- Skydiving (most popular one in NZ)
- Maori rock art
- Huka Falls, Craters of the moon
- Fishing trips
- Parasailing
Rotorua
- Smells like farts
- Hot pools
- Redwood forest (only one outside of California afaik)
Coromandel
- Beautiful drives & beaches
Northland
- Pretty empty except for farms but beautiful
- Skydiving in Kerikeri (Bay of Islands)
- Scuba Diving poor knights
- Cape Reinga (northernmost point)
- 90 mile beach
- Maori culture / history Waitangi Treaty Grounds etc
Auckland / Hamilton
- skip Auckland ๐คทโโ๏ธ
- Hamilton botanic gardens
- Nearby Hobbinton```