Kiwi adventures

New Zealand packs in the possibilities – from the New Zealand weather that is always cool when it’s sweltering in the U.S., and warm when it’s biting cold in these parts – and its extreme landscapes that give character to some of the world’s most popular fantasy films.

The antipodean nation in the southern seas also offers one of the widest ranges of experiences one can have per square mile. These include civilized afternoons having Wedgewood high tea in The Langham in Auckland to four-wheeling through windswept hills full of sheep and eyeing craggy glaciers in the distance near Canterbury, to dropping off a bridge over the Kawarau River in an act of breath-stopping bungee bravery. READ MORE …