Adventure

New Zealand is taking a giant leap into the space race as the country’s first rocket launch counts-down, and the first-ever Kiwi female astronaut readies for take-off.

A New Zealand adventure company has overcome military interference to lead a team to conquer Mount Everest, the first New Zealanders to do so since the death of Sir Edmund Hillary in January.

Kiwi skateboarder Rob Thomson has completed an epic solo skateboard journey through three continents that began in Switzerland and finished in Shanghai.

New Zealand’s natural beauty, Māori cultural experiences, small towns and main tourist centres have earned high praise in The Lonely Planet’s new guidebook released today.

Lonely Planet will release its first dedicated guidebook to New Zealand’s adventure-packed South Island in April 2009.

Global movers and shakers are in New Zealand’s best known alpine resort Queenstown, showing off their bartending prowess in the 2008 42BELOW Cocktail World Cup.

New Zealand is one of the top five most popular tourist destinations in the world, according to an international survey.

New Zealand has been given the thumbs up by British migrants as the best place in the world to live.

Re-tracing the footsteps of New Zealand’s early settlers across some of the country’s most remote and dramatic landscape has become an annual pilgrimage in Central Otago, New Zealand.

Tourists riding the popular Tranz Alpine rail link across New Zealand’s South Island will soon be enjoying a more luxurious journey.