Nature / Sustainable Tourism

Wai-o-tapu is a unique geothermal area located in the centre of the Taupo volcanic zone.

Franz Josef is not your average glacier – it is a 12km long, 7000-year-old body of ice sliding down a mountain valley into a rainforest.

Within the unfenced boundaries of Fiordland, one of the largest national parks in the world, is some of the most wild and dramatic scenery in New Zealand.

Hell's Gate and Wai Ora Spa, Tikitere is a unique place of extreme contrasts. Visitors walk past steaming fumeroles and pools of boiling mud so violent they are unnerving.

From a distance White Island first appears as a thick plume of smoke rising from the Pacific Ocean.

Deep in the South Island, hidden under the waves at high tide, lies a clue to New Zealand’s birth.

Was it a massive volcanic eruption or an upturned totara tree that created Lake Taupo, the glistening jewel in the centre of the North Island?

Everybody who has visited Rotorua, New Zealand and gasped in awe of its calderas, crater lakes, trout, native bush walks, geothermal mud pools and geysers, skied or snowboarded, owes it to the presence of volcanoes.

New Zealand's native Kauri tree was sought by shipbuilders and riggers alike for its exceptional timber, tall, strong and straight trees perfect for ships spars.

Paradise Valley Springs in Rotorua houses a unique bird sanctuary for endangered native birds of prey.