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Country Overview

New Zealand is a magnificent country with amazing geography. Its landscapes vary from icy glacial mountains to chocolate box pictures of lambs frolicking in green pastures, to scenes of cauldrons of boiling mud and gushing geysers of sulphur straight out of a sci-fi movie. It is also a backpacker's country with tremendous opportunities for hiking, climbing, and exploring, as well as a coast where you can swim with dolphins or watch the ancients of sea, the great Sperm whales.

Daily Budget
Not only is the country gorgeous and exciting it is also reasonably cheap to explore. ...