--- okf_version: "0.2" type: "Collection" title: "New Zealand" publisher: "Travelmemo" concept_count: 19 entities: - "https://travelmemo.com/ontology/places/new-zealand" - "https://travelmemo.com/ontology/places/alps" - "https://travelmemo.com/ontology/topics/culinary-tourism" - "https://travelmemo.com/ontology/topics/air-travel" - "https://travelmemo.com/ontology/topics/lake" - "https://travelmemo.com/ontology/topics/landscape" - "https://travelmemo.com/ontology/topics/winter-tourism" - "https://travelmemo.com/ontology/topics/experience-travel" - "https://travelmemo.com/ontology/topics/hiking" - "https://travelmemo.com/ontology/topics/nature-tourism" - "https://travelmemo.com/ontology/topics/luxury-travel" - "https://travelmemo.com/ontology/topics/sea-travel" - "https://travelmemo.com/ontology/topics/design" - "https://travelmemo.com/ontology/topics/lodge" - "https://travelmemo.com/ontology/organizations/wilderness-safaris" generated: { by: "okf-for-wordpress/1.8.11", at: 2026-07-04T14:28:56+00:00 } timestamp: 2026-07-04T14:28:56+00:00 --- # New Zealand * [On the Wild Side — Auckland’s West Coast Lifeguards don’t sit in a Tower…](/okf/new-zealand/auckland-west-coast-lifeguards.md) - Lifeguards at Piha Beach don't sit in a tower - these guys stand knee deep in the water with their rescue tubes at the ready, constantly scanning the surf.. * [Cardrona Alpine Resort, Wanaka, wins the vote…](/okf/new-zealand/cardrona-alpine-resort-chondola-wanaka.md) - Ride the ‘Chondy’, Cardrona’s smart new McDougall’s Express Chondola lift – a chair and gondola combo - to the top of the mountain! * [Stellar skiing in Cardrona Alpine Resort](/okf/new-zealand/cardrona-alpine-resort-skiing.md) - Justine Tyerman sets a new tradition on her best day’s skiing ever at Cardrona Alpine Resort in New Zealand . . . * [Dave and Emma’s house — our TV Star Setting](/okf/new-zealand/dave-and-emmas-house-our-tv-star-setting.md) - The occasion was our annual get-together, a time when our daughters fly in from far-away places. We chose Auckland’s West Coast beaches for the first time. * [E-biking the Clutha River, Wanaka, Otago](/okf/new-zealand/ebiking-clutha-river-wanaka.md) - Justine Tyerman discovers e-biking, and her husband performs a heroic deed... * [Franz Josef Glacier and the beautiful Maori legend](/okf/new-zealand/franz-josef-glacier-maori-legend.md) - Travel journalist Justine Tyerman learns about Franz Josef Glacier and the Maori legend of Ka Roimata o Hine Hukatere: The Tears of the Ice Maiden. * [Hollyford Track – A walk in the park](/okf/new-zealand/hollyford-track-fiordland-national-park.md) - Hollyford Track is a guided wilderness experience in the Fiordland National Park in New Zealand. Hiking at its best! Here's my review. * [Homing Instinct – Home Swapping](/okf/new-zealand/homing-instinct-home-swapping.md) - Swapping homes is the next best thing to being at home. I found a perfect place on my favourite accommodation website, Love Home Swap * [Living on the edge in a Luxe House](/okf/new-zealand/jagged-edge-luxe-house.md) - Check out Luxe Houses’ New Zealand flagship property, the spectacular Jagged Edge near Queenstown. What a view! * [Green and purple everywhere – JUCY rentals](/okf/new-zealand/jucy-rentals-green-purple.md) - JUCY Rentals came to the party, literally, when all well-laid plans people had made to meet at Queenstown Airport and car share to Wanaka for a family wedding turned to custard with a plethora of aborted landings, diversions and cancelled flights. * [JUCY SNOOZE HOTEL – Justine Tyerman snoozes in a ‘pod’ in Christchurch](/okf/new-zealand/jucy-snooze-hotel-christchurch.md) - I've stayed in many hotels around the world, from ritzy to rustic, but Snooze in Christchurch is the coolest of them all. Warm, welcoming, decidedly quirky! * [Justine’s tramping boots go on a roadie](/okf/new-zealand/justine-tramping-boots-motorhome-wanaka.md) - Justine's tramping boots were happy travelling with Lucy. She was everything they had ever dreamed of – buxom, powerful, aristocratic… and Italian. * [Travel Writer Justine Tyerman’s Ski Boots Undergo Radical Surgery](/okf/new-zealand/justine-tyerman-ski-boots-surgery.md) - Shotover Jet, Earth & Sky, Glacier Helicopters, Queenstown Snowmobiles, Dart River Adventures, Hollyford Track, Guided Walks New Zealand, Franz Josef Glacier Hot Pools, Huka Falls Jet, Rainbow Springs, Agrodome. * [Explore New Zealand’s South Island Lake District by motorhome & e-bike](/okf/new-zealand/lake-district-south-island-motorhome-e-bike.md) - Exploring the Lake’s District of the South Island in late summer/early autumn by motorhome and e-bikes is a dream come true! Check out what you're missing! * [Love Home Swap — I Love It!](/okf/new-zealand/love-home-swap-at-the-tv-star-set.md) - Travel journalist Justine Tyerman joined Love Home Swap in 2013 and Dave and Emma’s house is one of many private homes she's stayed at around the world. * [Love Home Swap House by Lovell and O’Connell Architects](/okf/new-zealand/love-home-swap-wanaka.md) - We stayed in luxury at a house in Wanaka with magnificent views of the lake and surrounding mountains. Check out this architecture award winner! * [The Rock on Gibraltar — Guaranteed to be amazing](/okf/new-zealand/rock-gibraltar-accom-rental-vacation-home.md) - The Rock on Gibraltar is a luxury private rental accommodation by Amazing Accom. It’s a veritable home-away-from-home. It lacks for nothing. * [Snowshoeing, jetboating and wilderness hiking](/okf/new-zealand/snowshoeing-jetboating-wilderness-hiking.md) - Justine's snowshoeing expedition up to Lake Alta near the summit of the Remarkables was one of the best days of her tramping boot's live! * [Te Ariki Nui – like a luxury lodge in the remote wilderness of Wanaka](/okf/new-zealand/te-ariki-nui-wanaka-luxury-lodge.md) - Te Ariki Nui is an idyllic rural abode on the 4-hectare property on the outskirts of Wanaka, New Zealand. Only 10 minutes from Wanaka Te Ariki Nui feels like a luxury lodge in a remote wilderness.