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| New Zealand Travel Guide for backpackers |
| 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. |
Wellington - The capital city of New Zealand, Wellington, has enough culture for any vulture, and puts on fab festivals just about every month.
Auckland - Set on a narrow stretch of North Island and surrounded on almost every side by the sea, it is here that surfer dudes hang and make waves.
Northland - Jacques Cousteau, and he would know, reckoned the Poor Knights Islands Marine Reserve in Northland has some of the gnarliest diving spots in the world.
Otago & Southland - this is a paradise for adrenaline junkies, with dope parasailing, white-water rafting, and hairy doings like bungee jumping from a helicopter.
The Routeburn Track - One of New Zealand's finest offerings, this walk takes you on a 3 day hike past thundering waterfalls and lushly wooded valleys, lakes and rivers. |
 DAILY BUDGET in NEW ZEALAND - Not only is the country gorgeous and exciting it is also reasonably cheap to explore. Camp, stay at hostels, self cater, and enjoy some of the free fun, swimming, surfing, tramping or birdwatching, and it could cost only US$35 a day. If, however, you want to go for some of the serious action such as bungee-jumping, rafting, or parasailing, as well as stay at hotels and eat decently at restaurants then your outlay could be about US$100 a day. |
| With the great weather in New Zealand makes it is a year-round destination with November to April the peak season. A series of festivals are held In Wellington over January and February with the Summer City Programme, and the Queenstown Winter Festival in June/July is a celebration of fun when the Kiwis drop their genteel show and whoop it up. |
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