Adventure

New Zealand has won another major world travel award– this time the country’s Southern Lakes have topped a list of 100 global destinations voted by members of the world’s largest online travel community.

The Nevis Arc New Zealand’s latest extreme adventure activity, said to be the world’s highest swing, has been launched by bungy jumping pioneers, AJ Hackett Bungy.

A New Zealander will try to break the world record for the most bungy jumps in 24 hours when he leaps off the Auckland Harbour Bridge next month.

New Zealand’s latest tourist attraction – a mix of adrenalin buzz and a dose of environmental awareness – is about to launch in the country’s adventure capital, Queenstown.

Millions of tonnes of glacial icebergs are providing a rare natural spectacle on the Tasman Glacier terminal lake, in New Zealand’s South Island.

Six of New Zealand’s best surf breaks will get national park status if a new coastal policy proposed by the Department of Conservation goes ahead.

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

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.

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

Kiwi athletes competing in India at the 2010 Commonwealth Games will take inspiration from the memory of two great mountaineering heroes – New Zealand’s Sir Edmund Hillary and his Nepalese companion Tenzing Norgay.