Tour New Zealand on a vintage DC3 in the week s best travel deals
11 Feb, 2021 10:58 PM
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Douglas DC-3: Spend nine days on the vintage wings of the National Airways Corporation icon. Photo / Supplied
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Vintage wings on DC-3 safari
Experience a piece of New Zealand s aviation history as you tour the South Island, aboard a Douglas DC-3. It was the core of the domestic airline from 1947-1978. A nine-day tour is from $10,990pp, with twin-share accommodation in Christchurch, Banks Peninsula, Ashburton, Ōamaru, Te Anau, Doubtful Sound, Fiordland National Park, Milford Sound, Wānaka and Mt Cook National Park. The price covers breakfasts, a visit to the Little Blue Penguin colony near Ōamaru and cruises, including an overnight in Doubtful Sound. The tour begins in Christchurch on April 10.
Discovering Queensland s stunning Scenic Rim, home to jagged mountains and ancient rainforest
Bushfires and the virus took their toll on Queensland’s volcanic Scenic Rim region but its wildlife and people
are bouncing back
The Scenic Rim trail is once again welcomoning visitors
Credit: Graham Michael Freeman
Resilience is etched in the face of Queensland farmer Trevor Turner as he strides along a country road ahead of a herd of cattle on what Australians call “the long paddock”. For generations, in times of drought and hardship, farmers have led stock off their land to graze along the roadsides. As bushfires followed drought last year, and the global pandemic made small businesses wish for their own version of the long paddock – a greener pasture of some kind – resilience is a quality conjured by many.
Premium Content A unique meditation hall has been proposed for a Byron Shire tourist facility. A development application seeking approval for alterations and additions to Pocket s Rainforest Retreat was lodged with Byron Shire Council on December 23. The proposal is now on public exhibition, until January 25. The DA proposes about $419,000 worth of works including the construction of a circular meditation hall with a copper-coloured dome roof. The application also seeks approval to relocate an existing, approved cabin on the property, at 15 Middle Pocket Rd, Middle Pocket. A unique meditation hall has been proposed for Pocket s Rainforest Retreat in the Byron Shire.
The aim is to deliver a "retreat style experience" and continue the property's theme of "positive human wellbeing and connection to the natural environment"
Lower Portals, Mt Barney. Photo Trevor Worden.
Adventurers and conservationists are collaborating to celebrate the regeneration of a beautiful, ancient landscape in a month-long festival.
Described as a ‘festival of a different kind’, the event will be held during March 2021 within the stunning Scenic Rim area, in south east Queensland.
From Lamington National Park to Mt Barney National Park, visitors are being invited to experience some of the most precious and spectacular areas of the World Heritage-listed Gondwana rainforests.
Following the devastating fires of summer 2019/2020, organisers intend to emphasise and celebrate the area’s environmental significance, which is UNESCO World Heritage listed.