Adventure

New Zealand’s newest adventure attraction, the Shweeb Velodrome, will open in Rotorua in late August 2007.

Some of the world's best young surfers will be riding the waves at Piha - on Auckland's wild west coast - when New Zealand plays host next January to the World Junior Surfing Champs.

The picturesque town of Lake Wanaka in New Zealand’s South Island has been listed as one of the world’s 10 most romantic places to have a holiday.

Next Easter weekend (April 7-9 2007), Queenstown will play host to a new breed of adventure race that combines elements of a traditional race, with a new ‘booty’ concept.

An outlandish stunt has created ballooning history, high above the New Zealand countryside.

Adventure tourism pioneers AJ Hackett and Henry van Asch tandem jumped for joy as they celebrated 20 years of adrenalin thrills at Queenstown’s Kawarau Bridge yesterday (12.11.08).

While financial swings have prompted caution and reserve in some industries, it seems New Zealand adventure-seekers are keener than ever to take the plunge and enjoy an adrenalin high.

International yachting teams have raced to submit entries for the new Louis Vuitton Pacific Series to be sailed in Auckland – New Zealand’s ‘city of sails’ – in February 2009.

Tourists at the Tasman Glacier terminal face, in Aoraki Mount Cook national park, witnessed a three-metre high wave as a giant iceberg plunged from the glacier into the terminal lake on Tuesday (10.02.09).

New Zealand will farewell one of its greatest sons, Sir Edmund Hillary, in a state funeral on January 22nd.