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Posts tagged ‘North Island’

In pictures: The weird colours of Rotorua’s Wai-O-Tapu

There’s a lot going on under the surface in New Zealand, and one of the island’s geothermal hotspots (in more ways than one) is Rotorua. Read more

Go east: The wild side of New Zealand’s North Island

New Zealand’s North Island is packed with amazing, world-famous sights, from the Bay of Islands and the thermal pools of Rotorua, to Lake Taupo and the Tongariro Crossing. When we were planning the route for our road trip around the island it had to include all of these, but we also wanted to get away from the crowds and see something different. Read more

New Zealand’s beautiful (and unpronounceable) Lake Waikaremoana

“Lake what?” After two days of road-tripping our way along the winding coast of New Zealand’s East Cape, we had arrived into Gisborne and had the map spread out to plan the next stage of our route. Read more