Unforgettable Sights

1. The Bay of Islands
An island-studded maritime playground in subtropical Northland. View map

2. Sky Tower
This Auckland icon soars 328 metres above the city. View map

3. Cathedral Cove
White sand and sparkling water in a secluded Coromandel setting. View map

4. White Island
An actively steaming off-shore volcano in the Bay of Plenty. View map

5. Waitomo Caves
Underground rivers and caverns studded with glowworms. View map

6. Rotorua Mud Pools
Evidence of the earth’s powerful defining forces. View map

7. Lake Taupo & Huka Falls
New Zealand’s largest lake and a thunderous waterfall. View map

8. Central North Island Volcanoes
Mt Ruapehu, Mt Tongariro and Mt Ngauruhoe. View map

9. Mt Taranaki
The near-perfect cone of a lone sentinel in the western North Island. View map

10. Palliser Bay
Ruggedly beautiful coastal landscape in the rural Wairarapa. View map

11. Marlborough Sounds
Bush-clad hills shelter quiet coves in these drowned valleys. View map

12. Abel Tasman National Park
Coastal paradise of golden beaches and green forest. View map

13. Farewell Spit
The world’s longest natural sandbar stretches 35 kilometres. View map

14. Punakaiki Pancake Rocks
Coastal rock formations and dramatic tidal blowholes. View map

15. Fox & Franz Josef Glaciers
Rivers of ice snaking down valleys cloaked in rainforest. View map

16. Mackenzie Country Lakes
Suspended glacial deposits turn these lakes aquamarine. View map

17. Mt Cook
New Zealand’s highest peak stands 3,754 metres tall. View map

18. Catlins Coast
Beautiful coastal landscape of forest and waterfalls. View map

19. Bluff
Windswept views at the not-quite-southernmost tip of mainland New Zealand. View map

20. Queenstown & Wanaka
Lakeside resorts surrounded by towering mountains. View map

21. Fiordland
Deep fiords surrounded by steep cliffs, waterfalls and rainforest. View map

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