On our New Zealand Adventureexperience Rotorua’s geysers, Maori culture,
Hawke’s Bay (one of New Zealand’s celebrated wine regions), and seaside Napier. Ride the historic Wellington Cable Car for panoramic views of the city and harbor. In Christchurch, tour the Botanic Gardens and Cathedral Square, then set out to see the spectacular Franz Josef Glacier. Your journey concludes with a three-night stay in the outdoor mecca of Queenstown, and a full-day excursion to experience the remarkable beauty of Fiordland National Park and Doubtful Sound.
We hope that you'll join us
Cathedral Square will be an interesting visit. I think that it's basically still abandoned after the 2011 earthquake.
"There exists a leisure class on both ends of the economic continuum" - thorsten veblen
Ok, but rather than being a rich man, how about being a poor man, and just find a way to get to NZ, and hitch-hike around, and find a source of scratch as needed, stay far away from Auckland such GOV 15-min citys, ,but if you get way out in the bush you should have no problem living well off the grid.
Regarding those wonderful 'maoris', they're big & mean, and would just as soon stomp a haole like a water-buffalo in Africa stomps all humans.
Show respect, but believe me that Maori, don't want or need any honkeys around them.
My preference of course is a cheap sailboat, I say darwin or sydney, find a cheap-cheap sailboat and go sail to NZ, and just live-aboard and check shit out.
The entire idea of spending $8k USD for a tour-bus flight trip to NZ, with a bunch of geriatrics in k-mart 3-wheelers, if that is anybodys idea of 'travel', then well they might want to consider META-GOOGLES, they now have world travel for free, and you can do it all from your couch.
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A real cool old gal 'queen of sea kayaking' don't remember her name, but she said "Travel alone, see 100%", travel with two see 50%, travel with 200 in a sardine can bus and see 0.5%; See the pattern yet.
Solo is the only way to see the world, besides when your traveling alone and your pleasant people are MORE than likely to take you in, and couples, never get taken in, and nobody trust a pack of wolves traveling together.
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If your just a normal normie, and want to see NZ, I would say it such as take a cheap flight, rent a cheap auto, and drive the south & north islands and just find cheap places to camp, there are always camp grounds everywhere in OZ&NZ; This shit can be done on a few grand budget, and you see way more, for most people their only real problem is TIME.
Which gets back to Thorsten-Veblen above, Only people living at the end of the economic continuum are free in time & space.