Contact Great Journeys New Zealand at www.greatjourneysnz.com or call your travel agent. Other outdoor options that can be arranged by Visit Ruapehu are canoeing, hiking, water sports and winter ...

Spectacular scenery can be enjoyed from the Northern Explorer. Queues? What queues? Lorna Subritzky goes by rail to enjoy Tongariro National Park and salutes traffic jams as she passes through. I love ...

In May 2021 I was travelling in a bubble: the short-lived Trans-Tasman travel bubble between Australia and New Zealand. I didn't know it would only stay open three months, but something told me to ...

Time doesn't fly on the Northern Explorer but you find it's a small world after all, writes Eli Orzessek. There's nothing like a joke that's been told a bazillion times before. Take, for example, this ...

On a bright, clear fall morning, the train from Wellington to Auckland clatters away from the rail station precisely as scheduled at 7:55. The temperature hovers coolly in the mid-50s, not at all cold ...