Author: Emily
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Mt Cook / Aoraki National Park
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I don’t need to convince you Mt. Cook / Aoraki National Park is a staple of any New Zealand road trip. Any travel book or satisfied visitor will assert that indisputable fact. I can, however, paint a picture of what particular details have infatuated travellers for decades. To list all…
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Mount Taranaki
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You may be thinking, why is this week’s blog dedicated to a single mountain when all previous weeks have covered entire towns or national parks? Well, for one, the experience of Mount Taranaki does not just happen standing at its feet. Mount Taranaki, due to the topographic irregularity of being…
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Queenstown
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Queenstown we were warned against from the start. If you go there, you will fall in love. You will never want to leave. New Zealand cities will pale in comparison to Queenstown. But there is no affordable housing. No affordable groceries. You will be doomed to live in a house…
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Arrowtown
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The best way to comparatively describe Arrowtown is as if a Wild Western town and a rural English village parented a new aesthetic. Arrowtown feels romantically frozen in time, antiquated, a rural English village 100 years ago (to make the comparison most familiar). Though Arrowtown is of course entirely its…
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Arthur’s Pass
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Arthur’s Pass is known to most as the gateway to New Zealand’s West Coast and the glacier highway. It is the highway traversing miles of the impassable Southern Alps that bisect New Zealand and further ranges to the north. It is a means to an end. A shortcut. A journey…