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Lookout points of the strikingly beautiful Remarkables Mountain Range and Lake Wakatipu. Exhilarating road with hairpin bends, serpentines and steep grades. The 68 km Crown Range connects Queenstown with Wanaka and is the highest road in New Zealand, reaching an altitude of 1121 metres. Listed as one of the most scenic drives of New Zealand going on this road trip will not disappoint you. With its hairpin bends, serpentines and steep grades the route is an exhilarating experience on its own. O...

My companion for the morning is Craig Fahey, boat skipper and hiking guide for Eco Wānaka Adventures, and a regular visitor to Lake Wānakas most remote island. En route to the compact lake that also resembles a rugged natural infinity pool, he introduces me to Mōu Wahos island residents. Extinct on the New Zealand mainland since 1920, the buff weka was only reintroduced from offshore islands in 2004, but now theres more than 200 of the squat and curious birds ranging across Mōu Wahos 120...

The Clay Cliffs This unworldly landscape has to be one of the most underrated attractions in New Zealand. If it were overseas, thered be ticket queues, cafes and novelty shops scattered around the place. Here, theres a hand-painted sign pointing towards the entrance and an honesty box which asks for $5 per car to visit. Brook Sabin/Stuff The cliffs look like they’re out of a movie set. The cliffs and pinnacles are dramatic; it feels like Peter Jackson was behind its creation as part of an e...

Lucky escape: Trapped driver freed after truck rolls off Crown Range road 7 Jan, 2021 10:47 PM 2 minutes to read Emergency services were called to the scene at 10am. Photo / Otago Daily Times Otago Daily Times By: Mike Houlahan, Matthew Mckew Police say a young truck driver has had a lucky escape, after his vehicle wound up 50 metres down a bank off the Crown Range. Emergency services were called to the crash site near Arrow Junction about 10am today. Fire and Emergency New Zealand crews from ...

• Source:  1 NEWS A truck driver was “very, very lucky” to escape with moderate injuries after crashing off the road on the Crown Range and falling several metres down the bank. Your playlist will load after this ad A small truck coming down the Crown Range Rd lost control and went over the steel barrier and several metres down the bank, Constable Phil B...

Wānakas super luxury escape, open to all 13 minutes to read When Denise Ryan Costello first stood on the patch of Central Otago land that would one day become her home, she says it "just felt right". Her husband, Paul Costello – founding chief executive of the NZ Super Fund – grew up on a farm north of Christchurch with a mountain view, and Denise says when he saw the outlook from this paddock of a former sheep station, he instantly fell in love. Read More The couple had been living in Mel...

Luxury Escapes Guide to Queenstown Dazzling in winter and equally spectacular in summer, action-packed Queenstown is New Zealand’s premier tourist town for a very good reason. Featured escape Travel guides Draped alongside lightning bolt–shaped Lake Wakatipu and ringed by jagged mountains, Queenstown offers the kind of scenery that expectant visitors to New Zealand fantasise about. If your appetite for the country was whetted by the Lord of the Rings/Hobbit movies, you’ll find things str...