New Zealand is not a big country, but for sheer variety it is hard to beat. As this map shows, it is scattered with many rivers, lakes, mountains, fiords and has a lot of wide open spaces of untouched wilderness. Regarded as "Clean & Green", New Zealand really is a world in one country - you can hike (tramp as the Kiwi's call it) on the sides of active volcanoes, or in remote, rugged patches of virgin rainforest, through thermal areas of geysers and boiling mud, or kauri forests with some of the largest and oldest trees on earth. You can swim with dolphins, watch whales, hike on glaciers descending into rainforests, fish for trout in pristine streams, and see fur seals, penguins and dolphins swimming around your boat or kayak as you cruise on remote fiords.

New Zealand stretches 1600km (approx. 1000 miles) from North to South and consists of two large islands, around which are scattered some smaller islands, the largest of which is Stewart Island to the South. The South Island is about one-third larger than the North Island in land area, but has less than one-third of the North Island's population.

Click on a tour name on the left menu to see where that tour goes on a map of New Zealand.