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New Zealand 'offers tourists best of both worlds'

Posted by Freddy Morton


Visitors to Australasia with a 12v caravan television may like to take a trip to New Zealand and experience the best of the modern cities as well as the traditional lands of Maori culture, one expert has suggested.


A spokesperson from Lonely Planet said that New Zealand gives travellers a wide variety of things to do.


Charles Rawlings-Way, author of Lonely Planet's New Zealand guidebook, said: "On the wild side, take a 'tramp' [hike, or bushwalk] into the wilderness [with] remote beaches, snow-capped mountains, thundering river gorges - they're all here."


He added that first-time visitors should see the cities and the wilderness, and try to look out for the traditional Kiwi bird.


Visitors who would like to discover more about the origins of the country should investigate the rural areas where Maori culture is still highly popular, according to Mr Rawlings.


The Maori are the indigenous people of Aotearoa (New Zealand) and first arrived there in voyaging canoes from their ancestral homeland of Hawaiki over 1,000 years ago.