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The Marlborough Flyer steam train. Photo: RNZ / Tracy Neal Pounamu Tourism Group owner Paul Jackson said they were preparing for about 60 cruise ship to arrive in Picton in 2020. His company would take 300 passengers on the Marlborough Flyer steam train, delivering them to Blenhiem. But when Covid-19 struck and he, like many others, was left with the vast majority of his usual market cut off by border closures. "We were scratching our heads over lockdown and, obviously, the business was looking at 11,000 cruise passengers on the train and then back to zero, it was quite a jolt for us." Five ...

South of Kaikōura, the rail journey will continue with two heritage DA locomotives built in the early 1950s, which will travel in double-header formation all the way to Invercargill. Upon reaching Invercargill, the tour will travel inland via luxury coach, taking in Te Anau, Milford Sound, Queenstown and Franz Josef. Supplied The tour will take passengers down the length of the South Island in heritage trains. The inland section of the tour will also feature a return journey on the iconic Kingston Flyer steam train, which is returning to commercial operation for the first time since 2013....

Watch: Samantha Hayes' full report Credits: Video - Newshub ; Image - Getty Newshub can reveal COVID-19 is tearing through one of the most remote places on the planet: Everest Base Camp.  The Nepalese government denies it's happening, but a Nepalese Sherpa who has recently come off the world's highest mountain has called the outbreak scary. Nepal shares a border with India which has remained open through the pandemic, and the new Delta variant is now widespread throughout Nepal and the Everest area.  Mingma Gyalje Sherpa led a team of Nepalese mountaineers on a world-record-setting first wi...

Nepal has officially recorded nearly 600,000 cases of COVID-19.