100% Pure - nature

NZ promotes itself as “100% Pure” with a focus on its nature and the outdoor life.

Fern trees, temperate rainforests, pine trees – woodland that stretches for miles and miles and miles. Sadly, much of the rainforest is not virgin, having originally been felled by Victorian European settlers - however, despite the fact that much of mature forests have had to be replanted, it’s a sight to behold.

Spectacular waterfalls; the gorges and mountains of the Gates of Haast; Queen Charlotte Sound (named by Cook after the wife of George III) - both to sail up on the ferry from the North Island and to look down upon on a wonderful evening’s drive out from Picton. The snow-capped mountains of Mt Aspiring national park and the Dart River; the Desert Road in the Tongariro National Park, North Island; Pancake Rocks at Punakaiki.