Story Angles

The dream of two Maori brothers has allowed visitors to experience first-hand New Zealand Maori culture, their arts and crafts, music and food, at the Tamaki Maori Village near Rotorua.

Winemakers make good use of all of New Zealand's fruit, not just grapes. Fruit wines and liqueurs are gaining in popularity and quality.

Muriwai, a surf beach on the west coast of Auckland, is around 60 kilometres and extends into a regional park of around 8 kilometres.

Giant squid has never been seen alive, but a fully preserved specimen, named Maximum, can be viewed at the National Aquarium of New Zealand in Hawke’s Bay.

Billionaire adventurer Steve Fossett believes Omarama is the closest to heaven that you can get on Earth.

Carrington Resort located in Carrington Farms offers luxury accommodation, a tournament standard golf course, an Angus stud farm, one of Northland's largest plantings of grapes and a restored wetland and thriving breeding zone for birds.

A New Zealand invention - skates with a modern twist - has rolled out to become a multi million dollar company.

'Spinning a Line' is a NZ book of short stories about fishing. Released 2001.

The annual Taihape Gumboot Throwing Festival highlights New Zealand's rural lifestyle, with the country well known for its agricultural products worldwide.

New Zealand is home to the steepest public street in the world, and Kiwis - always looking for a challenge - have created an adventure out of it, the Baldwin Street Gutbuster.