My top travellers tips for visitors to New Zealand are very simple: all the usual safety travel tips apply here as elsewhere in the world. my tips are more prosaic, more ordinary, and New Zealand centred.
- Firstly we’re a long skinny country at the bottom of the world, surrounded by a huge ocean – that means the weather can AND WILL change often. Carry rain gear, and warm clothes, with you except mid summer. You have been warned!
- Many of our traffic lights for pedestrians NO NOT activate unless you push the button .. a hint.. if the red man is glowing you don’t need to push it .. it has been activated by someone else or is automatic.
- If someone stops to offer help if you look lost, or confused, we are not selling something, we really do want to offer help or information – FREE – no hidden agendas!
- It will take longer than you think to get from A to B on our roads … we have very few motorways. Remember we only have a population of 4 and half million in a land similar in size to the UK or Japan
More tips will follow – but in the meantime here are three of our national treasures.
Sir Ed Hillary
Kereru – the largest wood pigeon in the world. NZ native
Takake – thought extinct til late 1940s – a still-endangered native
See my page re campervans in the categories section on the right of this page ( esp top-tips-for-campervan) The only one I can recomend .. as I have used them .. are Backpacker (http://www.backpackercampervans.co.nz/)
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Was wondering if you had any suggestions for campervans and motorhomes in New Zealand. I’ve found a couple of sites like http://www.findacamper.co.nz and http://www.travelsavernz.com where you can book them. Do you know of any good rental companies?
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