Things you can't miss to see while traveling in New Zealand:
1. Milford Sound
Experience the grandeur and beauty of Fiordland on the area’s most accessible fiord, great in bright sunshine and wonderfully atmospheric in the mist with the waterfalls at their most impressive.
2. Tree ferns
Sometimes reaching up to 10m, these outsize specimens provide shade for some of the more delicate species in New Zealand’s unique ecosystem.
3. Taieri Gorge Railway
Ride the stately old train through otherwise inaccessible mountain landscapes on this dramatic journey along a line established back in 1859.
4. Whale watching
An impressive range of cetaceans populates the deep canyons off the Kaikoura Peninsula, visited on a cruise or spied from a plane or helicopter.
5. Otago Central Rail Trail
Taking three leisurely days on a bike is the best way to tackle this 150km trail, which follows the route of a former rail line through some ruggedly barren country.
6. White Island
Take an appealing boat trip out to New Zealand’s most active volcano, and stroll through the sulphurous lunar landscape to peer into the steaming crater.
7. Ninety Mile Beach
This seemingly endless wave-lashed golden strand is a designated highway, plied by tour buses that regularly stop to let passengers toboggan down the steep dunes.
8. Moeraki Boulders
Stroll along the beach to visit these large, perfectly round, natural spheres with a honeycomb centre, just sitting in the surf.
9. The glaciers
The steep and dramatic Fox and Franz Josef glaciers can be explored by glacier hike, ice climbing and helicopter flights landing on the snowfields above.
10.The Catlins
Seals and dolphins and a laidback approach to life make this rugged coast a great place to unwind for a few days.
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