New Zealand may be at the end of the world (or not even on the map sometimes) but even there you will need money. Well, not really. Not in the traditional sense. New Zealand is almost cashless today and it is possible to have a trip there without ever touching a physical banknote. There are…
Lake Tekapo is at the center of the largest Dark Sky Reserve in the Southern Hemisphere – the Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park. There is minimal light pollution there so it’s one of the best places to go stargazing in the entire world! There are many options to go about it. Organized stargazing is…
I had this idea that all backpackers hitchhike in New Zealand. They throw a coin and if it’s heads they go North to South, if it’s tails they go South to North. I did the next best thing: I checked the flights to Auckland and to Queenstown and picked the cheaper. In my case Queenstown….