Rough Guides Snapshot New Zealand: Fiordland and the South
Rough Guides
Language: English
Pages: 312
ISBN: B011MT7JAG
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
The Rough Guide Snapshot to Fiordland and the south is the ultimate travel guide to New Zealand's dramatic southern tip, packed with reliable information. There's comprehensive coverage of all the highlights of this breathtaking region, from relaxing on the shores of Lake Te Anau to driving the Southern Scenic Route. Detailed maps and up-to-date listings pinpoint the best cafés, restaurants, hotels, shops and bars, ensuring you have the most enjoyable trip possible. The Rough Guide Snapshot to Fiordland and the south covers Dunedin, the Otago Peninsula, Invercargill, Stewart Island, Te Anau, Milford Sound and the Milford Track, Lake Manapouri, Doubtful Sound, Taieri Gorge, the Southern Scenic Route and the Hump Ridge Track.
Also published as part of The Rough Guide to New Zealand.
The Rough Guide Snapshot to Fiordland and the south is equivalent to 128 printed pages.
which is sealed all the way, though virtually all the Catlins’ attractions are reached on narrow gravel roads. Without your own transport, visit on a guided tour. TOURS Bottom Bus 03 477 9083, travelheadfirst.com. Hop-on, hop-off service offered (three times a week in summer) as a supplementary trip by Kiwi Experience (though it attracts less of the booze-bus crowd). It loops from Queenstown to Dunedin, Invercargill via the Catlins then on to Queenstown over 3–7 days ($315). You can start
during school holidays. ACCOMMODATION GUIDES AND WEBSITES AA Accommodation Guide aatravel.co.nz. Accommodation providers pay to be in this annual guide for the whole country that concentrates mostly on motels and holiday parks. Also a B&B guide and various regional variants. Available free from most motels and i-SITE offices. BookABach bookabach.co.nz. Many Kiwis own a holiday home (a.k.a. bach or crib), which they may rent out when they’re not using them. Some are in superb locations next to
source their grapes elsewhere, making this a good place to sample wines from around the country, though Chardonnay and Merlot are particular highlights. Hawke’s Bay Premium wine area around Napier and Hastings with over seventy wineries open to the public, some with tours and restaurants. Produces some of the country’s best Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon blends and Syrahs. Martinborough The most accessible cluster of vineyards, many within walking distance of the town, with fine Pinot Noir and
it has been a Kiwi dream to have a continuous path from one end of the country to the other. Te Araroa (teararoa.org.nz) opened in 2011 under the auspices of the private Te Araroa Trust, which has linked a fragmented network of existing tracks into a continuous 3000km route from Cape Reinga to Bluff. Improvements are made as new access is negotiated, but the impressively varied route is essentially complete. Much of it runs through fairly remote country, although it intentionally visits small
today’s Lower Hollyford Road. At the time of writing a new proposal to construct an 80km toll road along the northern Fiordland coast was gaining momentum, with foreign investors in line to stump up much of the $230m cost – though it remains to be seen if the plans will ever be approved. The Hollyford Valley Gunns Camp Museum The Milford Road drops down from The Divide into the Hollyford Valley, which runs 80km from its headwaters in the Darran Mountains north to the Tasman Sea at Martins