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Travel in the US: road tripping in the San Juan Islands
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Travel in the US: road tripping in the San Juan Islands
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Road tripping in the San Juan Islands, a stunning archipelago within Washington’s Pacific Northwest.

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Luxury stay: glass-box glamping in Kaikōura, New Zealand
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Luxury stay: glass-box glamping in Kaikōura, New Zealand
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Ultimate privacy and breath-taking views nestled in the snow-capped Southern Alps.

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Embracing the wonders and stories of Māori astronomy
Heritage and Culture, Travel, Science, Wine
Embracing the wonders and stories of Māori astronomy
Heritage and Culture, Travel, Science, Wine

Winter brings Matariki — and with it opportunities to embrace the wonders and stories of Māori astronomy.

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A walking tour of Wellington’s Modernist icons during Wellington Heritage Week
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A walking tour of Wellington’s Modernist icons during Wellington Heritage Week
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What parts of a city would you forgo in the name of progress and what parts would you hang on to? Jacqui Gibson takes walking tour of Wellington’s Modernist icons.

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Te Urewera: how to experience the natural world in a new way
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Te Urewera: how to experience the natural world in a new way
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Manuhiri are being invited to experience Te Urewera in a new way.

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Arrowtown: where the quest for gold lives on
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Arrowtown: where the quest for gold lives on
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Arrowtown’s goldmining heritage now draws thousands of visitors to the Central Otago town every year, but striking it rich in the tourism sector has taken decades of planning and hard work.

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Early findings from the New Zealand Working Dog Project
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Early findings from the New Zealand Working Dog Project
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Farm dogs have been part of the fabric of New Zealand life for 150 years, yet little is known about important aspects of their health, productivity and longevity.

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Travel in the US: road tripping in Colorado
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Travel in the US: road tripping in Colorado
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Jacqui Gibson recounts a three-day road trip into the stunning Rocky Mountains. Loveland Pass, Colorado’s highest mountain pass, located a staggering 3655m above sea level.

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A visit to Italy’s Chianti wine country
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A visit to Italy’s Chianti wine country
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Fattoria Poggerino is a boutique winery and heritage B&B located deep in the heart of Tuscany’s Chianti wine district.

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Mangrove crab magician: An interview with chef Joe Junior from Oravae Cottage
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Mangrove crab magician: An interview with chef Joe Junior from Oravae Cottage
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Award-winning Solomon Island chef Junior Joe is cooking up a storm at Oravae Cottage.

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Off to a wānanga
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Off to a wānanga
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Ngāti Kuri share their vision for the future at a wānanga in the Far North.

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A walking tour of Downtown LA
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A walking tour of Downtown LA
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Take a tour with the Los Angeles Conservancy to see one of the highest concentrations of historic buildings in the entire United States.

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Every summer travellers from around the world join New Zealand adventure tourism company Heritage Expeditions on their voyages to the Subantarctic region. This year, I was lucky enough to tag along to find out what draws people to this remote regio
Arrivederci Sicily (and Italy) from Castello Normanno in the historic township of Salemi — one of Italy’s oldest settlements and the picturesque location of the BBC tele mini series Amanda & Allan’s Italian Adventure. After 30-o
Today is our last day in Switzerland. It’s been an unforgettable week of hiking a gruelling four-day section of the Tour du Mont Blanc with our talented guide Arantxa Guiterrez, eating pie at mountain top refugios and looking for marmots. There
There’s a gorgeous rail trail walk in Paris called the Promenade plantée René-Dumont (French for planted walkway). It’s a 4.7 km elevated city park built on top of an obsolete railway in the 12th arrondissement. The perfect
It was, maybe, 1994 when I first visited the Aussie outback. I was a 22, hitchhiking solo from Darwin to Townsville with less than 20 bucks in my pocket. The empty red desert seemed as mysterious and exhilarating to me as any of the faraway places I&
How beautiful is the Aussie bush? Just spent a day in the heritage-listed Grand Blue Mountains Area hiking the 7-ish km Grand Canyon trail. Looked out for a cutesy wallaroo (no luck), took care to avoid strangly, bitey snakes (tick) and surprisingly