New Zealand s Best Beach: Northland s Matapōuri, and Mount Maunganui in the Bay of Plenty
21 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
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NZ Herald
Each day this week, we re profiling two much-loved Kiwi seaside spots in our quest to find New Zealand s best beach. We asked readers for nominations and we ve narrowed that down to 10 finalists and three wildcards chosen by the Herald Travel team. To vote for your favourite and help us crown a winner, scroll down to the form at the bottom. The Best Beach 2021 winner will be announced in the Herald on Sunday on January 31.
Rated one of the world s top coastal destinations by National Geographic, it s only half an hour s drive from Whangārei to Northland s Tutukaka Coast. Past the historic seaside village of Ngunguru and the beautiful deepwater harbour and marina at Tutukaka is
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New Zealand s best swimming holes, beaches and outdoor pools to visit this summer
27 Dec, 2020 05:16 PM
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By: Ewan McDonald
Summer is bliss. Or Bliss , if your coming-of-age memory is Th Dudes gig at the Soundshell.
It s the rosy beginning, burnt-orange middle and fading end of the golden weather, when life is a beach, a surf break, lakeshore, swimming hole, whitewater raft-ride, sit-down or stand-up paddle bay; when New Zealand becomes a country of sails.
Aotearoa has 15,000km of coastline, which means that each of us gets 3 metres to find a tree, spread out a towel and moor a gently defrosting chilly bin.
BROOK SABIN
From $80 helicopter trips to $123 ski plane adventures, some big specials are being offered for Kiwi tourists over the summer break.
There are those of us likely to heed Tourism New Zealand’s calls to do something new this summer. And there are those of us who plan to holiday in places we know are sure bets. The summer holidays roll around once a year after all, and no one wants to wind up somewhere that looks good on paper (and in heavily edited digital images) but in reality is a dump. If you have someone to vouch for a place though, going boldly where you’ve never gone before isn’t such an issue. Which is why we asked the Stuff Travel Neighbourly community to tell us about the summer holiday spots that have kept them coming back for years, if not decades.