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This guide is the big picture, the overall view, but if you want detailed information on what to see, where to go, where to eat, where to stay go to my (Not quite) Complete Guide to New Zealand Travel Where to stay, where to eat, what to see. Yes, all that. But much more. It is aimed primarily at self-drive travellers and they need to know much more. The problem is how to deliver this information in a logical way - and I have decided to serve it up as the road rolls under you. That is, the information is given kilometre by kilometre for each of the state highways. It is a work in progress. And so far it has been seven years in the making. It is far from complete, but if you are touring NZ you may find it useful. Click here to visit the (Not quite) Complete Guide To New Zealand Travel. |
General Introduction
Original Dateline: Auckland January 12, 1996. (When the Net was still
new outside the academic / military world and few had heard of the WWW.)
Latest Update: 29 July 2011 When I was a kid of about 12, I went on a Boy Scout trip to the South Island and for over 50 years since I've never stopped travelling the length and breadth of this breathtakingly beautiful country. Over those years I've published a variety of Visitors Guides, trying to transmit to other travellers the things I've learned that will enhance their visit. Breaking free of the limitations, the linearity, of printers, paper and ink I commit these ideas now to the ether of the information highway - make use of them as you will. Any ideas, suggestions or queries are very welcome. Talk to me at drm@visitnz.co.nz. The objective of the exercise is to give you the essential information, at a strategic level, to plan a visit to New Zealand. That means trying to chronicle the major attractions in each region so that you can budget time and distance. It never ceases to amaze me, as someone who talks to many hundreds of travellers just as they are about to set out on their journey of discovery, that they have no idea of where to go. I guess they just potter along taking whatever comes along . . .and that's OK. Except isn't it galling to find, after you got home and started to read the instructions, that just two or three kms from your set track was something really fascinating, something you'd really liked to have done or seen or experienced? In my humble way I hope I can assist by cataloguing the best of what's to be had - spreading before you a veritable smorgasbord of peripatetic delights to tempt you into perhaps staying a few days longer. That's the strategic stuff. Where do we go, why, and what do we want to do there. But there's also the tactical stuff: What other things can we do when we get there? Where do we stay? Where do we find those special restaurants, cafes, pubs, clubs that provide the herbs and spices to the main course, the scenery? Right now I'm working on that - an eTravelGuide to New Zealand. You can access the material in its present (unfinished) form at http://new-zealand-travel-guide.com/TravelGuide/index.htm In the meantime, accept these offerings for what they are . . . the meanderings of a wanderer, or the wanderings of a meanderer . . . not always coherent, certainly not compleat. But then, can any true travel guide ever be compleat? I think not. So . . . enjoy planning your visit. But most important of all, enjoy every hour you are here. It really is, as one of our early Prime Ministers, "King" Dick Seddon, said, "God's Own Country". Kia kaha.
A New Zealand Travel Guide is written by David Morris and published by 148 Hillsborough Rd, Hillsborough,
Auckland 1042,
New Zealand. [Return to the top of A New Zealand Travel Guide] |
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