Crossing over
There are compelling reasons to swap your downhill skis for the bacon rasher-thin planks used on cross-country terrain, writes Liz Breslin.
Life & Style
In a league of its own
In a league of its own
In a city of grit and of glitter David Loughrey wanders the streets and finds his people at a rugby league game at Leichhardt Oval as he takes in a sporting weekend in Sydney.
Seven days in heaven
Seven days in heaven
Seven days in a hut with no electricity or running water surrounded by knee-high snow might sound like a trial to some but, as Alina Suchanski writes, it’s the life of a voluntary hut warden.
Beyond Havana
Beyond Havana
US visitors and their dollars are flooding into Cuba's capital Havana as airlines and hotels take advantage of the thaw in relations between the Cold War antagonists. But in the provinces, it's a different story.
Best in Asia
Best in Asia
Lonely Planet has announced its inaugural Best in Asia list, an agenda-setting collection of the continent’s 10 best destinations to visit over the next 12 months.
Downhill skiing
Downhill skiing
There might still be time to ski Venezuela. Then again, there might not.
Awards for Otago writers
Travel writing awards
Clinton travel writer Julie Orr-Wilson has won the Cathay Pacific Travel Writer of the Year Award for a piece published in the Otago Daily Times.
Gay pride in New Orleans
Gay pride in New Orleans
Prejudices were out and fetishes were in during Pam Jones' moving first visit to New Orleans' most famous street.
Novel time with Nola
Novel time with Nola
Pam Jones is surrounded by literary heavyweights as she gets to know the city known as Nola.
Messing about in boats
Messing about in boats
Pamela Wade and friends discover the trials and tribulations of a week in a narrowboat on England’s Grand Union Canal.
Bubbling mix still captivates
Bubbling mix still captivates
Reporter Jono Edwards flees to the winter getaway of Rotorua to find a bubbling mix of mud pools, geysers and culture.
Seriously subtropical
Seriously subtropical
From the Deep South, Simon Hartley travels to the Far North to check the veracity of claims of ‘‘winterless Northland'', and what it offers while Otago gets set to winter over.
Out in the mountain air
Out in the mountain air
Besides the picturesque location, New Plymouth is mostly about its art and culture above anything else, Samuel White discovers.
Closer to heaven
Closer to heaven
A weekend away in the Mackenzie Country was just what the doctor ordered for motoring writer Catherine Pattison.
Smaller footprints
Smaller footprints
With cheap and easy flights often taken for granted as the travel mode de jour, where does the average traveller stand when faced with the reality of their CO2 contribution to a rapidly tipping climate?
War on a grand scale
War on a grand scale
The dramatic realism of Te Papa's latest exhibition is extraordinary and exciting, but then it hits you.
A capital place
A capital place
In the first of our series looking at places to go for short winter breaks David Loughrey headed to Wellington for a taste of culture, literature and art. The capital city provided all of that, as well as beer and native birds.
In the stillness of time
In the stillness of time
Fergus Blakiston travels backwards into the dim reaches of time ...
World-class attractions
World-class attractions
Air New Zealand has opened a new entry point for travellers from Auckland to the United States. Dunedin's Dame Elizabeth Hanan discovered in Houston an unexpectedly vibrant and stimulating city when she travelled to United States to meet family.
Tropical paradise
Tropical paradise
Bruce Munro goes looking for adventure on the wild and beautiful Samoan island of Savai'i.