Longer-form writing on travelling Aotearoa — what the headline experiences actually involve, how long they really take, and what is worth your time. Researched in-house and sourced, not rewritten from brochures.
The Queenstown–Milford drive is 288km and realistically 5–6 hours each way, making a 12–13 hour day. What that means for how you should do it — and whether to drive at all.
The Waitomo Glowworm Caves run a 45-minute tour ending in a silent boat ride beneath thousands of Arachnocampa luminosa. The story of who found them — and who owns them now — is the better half.
The TSS Earnslaw is the last coal-fired passenger steamship running commercially in the Southern Hemisphere. What she is, why she nearly went for scrap in 1968, and what the Walter Peak crossing involves.
