Artists can be trusted to find cool places to live. Creative types have flocked to this 62-mile-long finger of land east of Auckland, where the ...

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This is a 304-mile route that runs from Hawkes Bay to Blenheim, linking three leading wine districts and well over a hundred wineries. Most of ...

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Vying with New York City for number of restaurants and cafés per capita, New Zealand's waterfront capital is a world-class metropolis—with terrific public ...

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This popular South Island national park, New Zealand's smallest, is an easy reach. Warm tourmaline surf lapping a tree-studded, rocky coastline cries out to ...

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It takes a bird's-eye view to grasp the majesty of the Milford Sound fjord, one of the "oh wow" aspects of South Island's ...

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All sorts of health claims are made for manuka honey, which comes from flower nectar retrieved from the indigenous bush of the same name. Rich ...

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This is another New Zealand comestible that comes with a raft of health claims. Its combination of fatty acids, unlike any found in the plant ...

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Some 70 percent of Kiwis live on the urban, volcanic-strewn North Island, a swirling blend of cultures, from indigenous Maori to Asian to European. Where ...

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Get ready to say goodbye to daylight. It's time to go underground on the South Island. To reach the water on which your group ...

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Far from the madding crowd—a 40-minute drive west from Auckland on the North Island—on New Zealand's wild west coast, is a place ...

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