Mount Maunganui

Published by - Mar 12, 2008
A warm climate and stunning beaches attract visitors to this popular holiday destination. Mt Maunganui is a resort town built on a long sandy peninsula with an old volcanic cone (locally known as ‘The Mount’) at its end which dominates the landscape. The town itself... Read More

Rotorua

Published by - Feb 17, 2008
New Zealand’s capital of geothermal activity and traditional Maori culture Rotorua is situated in the centre of New Zealand’s North Island. Its name is Maori and means ‘two lakes’, named for the lakes on which the city is built. The Te Awara tribe first inhabited the... Read More

Gisborne

Published by - Jan 9, 2008
New Zealand’s most easterly city and least discovered tourist destination makes an ideal location for a get-away from it all holiday. Gisborne is New Zealand’s most easterly city. Situated on the North Island’s East Cape, on the shores of the Pacific Ocean, Gisborne is... Read More

Taupo

Published by - Dec 21, 2007
Set on the shores of New Zealand’s biggest lake, this scenic town is an adventure lovers paradise. Taupo lies at the very centre of the North Island on the northern shores of New Zealand’s biggest lake. The area is rich in thermal activity, the lake itself being the flooded... Read More

New Plymouth

Published by - Nov 15, 2007
Dominated by a snow capped volcano, New Plymouth is the hub of the Taranaki region and gateway to Mt Egmont National Park. New Plymouth is on the western coast of New Zealand’s North Island, midway between Auckland and Wellington, and is built on the west coast’s only deep... Read More