Stray from the two main islands for gob-smacking terrain, and highlights including the most assured kiwi sightings and world’s only island Dark Sky Sanctuary.
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Stonehenge – the New Zealand version. Similar in size and design to its prehistoric namesake on England’s Salisbury Plains, Stonehenge Aotearoa features 24 pillars and lintels which frame the rising and setting points of especially bright stars. Together with the obelisk, they form a giant clock and calendar which identifies the date, the times of the solstices and equinoxes, conjunctions between the sun and bright stars and other clever things that help tell time. You can explore the open-air observatory on your own, or book a daytime tour to learn more about the henge and how it incorporates ancient Egyptian, Babylonian, Celtic, Polynesian and Māori elements.