Wilderness Lodges at Moeraki on the West Coast of the South Island and at Arthur’s Pass in the heart of the Southern Alps are at the forefront of nature tourism.
Isolated for around 80 million years, New Zealand became a paradise for birds; some, in the absence of predators, developing unusual and interesting characteristics. Plus other animals.
Rotorua’s Waimangu Volcanic Valley was created in 1886 and is the only hydrothermal system in the world wholly formed within historic times as a result of a volcanic eruption.