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new Zealand
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The best lodge in New Zealand? The magnificent Blanket Bay, Queenstown/Glenorchy.
Let us begin at the end: If you go to New Zealand, and you can stay at Blanket Bay, you must stay at Blanket Bay. There is nothing — lodge, resort, boutique, hotel — quite like it. It begins with an email. After our two-night stay, Tom Butler, the General Manager of Blanket Bay alpine…
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24 hours in Kaikoura, New Zealand.
On the road for 24 hours in Kaikoura. Where to stay, eat, hike. What a seaside delight! As you wend down the SH1 highway that runs inland, you first pass through the wine plains of Blenheim, which then opens up to hug the West Coast of the South Island to Kaikoura; the views of ocean…
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Rotorua, New Zealand, and the Amazing Redwoods Treewalk.
New Zealand, and Rotorua…this time the unusual interpretation on redwoods with the Redwoods Treewalk. We are so used to standing on the bare ground in a sacred circle of redwoods, that to climb and walk among their heights was unique. Redwoods and the giant sequoia have a mystic comfort that no other tree provides. It…
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