Kaikoura, the town where the mountains meet the sea on the east coast of New Zealand’s South Island has attained a well-deserved reputation for eco-tourism.
Kaikoura, the town where the mountains meet the sea on the east coast of New Zealand’s South Island has attained a well-deserved reputation for eco-tourism.
The hobbits are back! And they’re in New Zealand again. Now that The Hobbit, the prequel to Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings film trilogy, is out New Zealand is once again Middle Earth. Not only because it’s Jackson’s home but because he believes it’s the best film location anywhere.
There’s more depth to the Kiwi wine scene than bucket loads of Sauvignon Blanc. The Marlborough region is dumping wine in huge quantities on the global market. Credit given where credit is due; some of the gooseberry infused S.B. from the northern parts of the South Island is eminently quaffable.