If you're road-tripping through Northland and your map shows Kerikeri, do yourself a favour and make the short detour to Rainbow Falls. It's one of those spots that doesn't need much hype — a 27-metre curtain of water dropping straight into a pool below, tucked into native bush, with barely any effort required to get there. Here's why it's worth the stop.
Continue readingIf you've ever wanted to see what New Zealand sounded and looked like before predators arrived, Tiritiri Matangi is about as close as you'll get. It's a small island in the Hauraki Gulf, just over an hour by ferry from downtown Auckland, and it packs in more rare native wildlife per square metre than almost anywhere else in the country. Here's why it's worth carving out a day for.
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