Great Southern Land

American travel writer Marcy Barack spent Christmas with her family on the northern beaches and parks of the South Island last year. She relates the experience – location by idyllic location – in a lengthy feature for the LA Times. Highlights of the trip include horse riding on desolate Wharariki Beach, watching a dreadlocked reggae band at Takaka, eating Rosy Glow chocolates in Collingwood, and admiring the clearest water in the world at Pupu Springs.  


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Friedensreich Hundertwasser’s New Zealand Legacy

Friedensreich Hundertwasser’s New Zealand Legacy

“ Hundertwasser designed buildings in many countries across Europe, in California’s Napa Valley, in Israel, in Japan. But I’m not in any of those places. I’m on the other side of…