Pico de Arieiro, Madeira, Portugal
Aruba, Netherland Antilles
Cable Car, San Francisco, USA
An extended acquaintance with New Zealand Leaving Australia, you’ll travel virtually the entire the length of New Zealand. First wonder at the natural splendour of Milford Sound in the south west, where verdant tooth-like peaks reflect in the mirrored waters of this breathtaking fjord. Your next landfall is Dunedin on South Island’s east coast where the Otago Peninsula is home to the world’s only mainland albatross breeding colony, along with cormorants, blue penguins and other species.
Cross the Cook Strait to Wellington Comparisons are often drawn between the nation’s capital and San Francisco, its hills packed with Victorian houses, emblematic cable cars and an undoubted charm. Further north, Art Deco Napier stands on Hawke Bay whose highly regarded wineries of the same name are well worth a day trip. You could explore the bubbling springs and mud pools of Rotorua from Tauranga or even from Auckland. In the ‘City of Sails’ ascend the Sky Tower, browse the
elegant boutiques and markets at street level or head underground to where glow worms light the subterranean Waitomo Caves. Finally, reach the Bay of Islands, whose waters and surrounding wetlands shelter all manner of aquatic life, from birds and seals to dolphins and even whales.
Jewels set into the sparkling Pacific Encounter the kingdom of Tonga. The Royal Palace gives a sense of Polynesian pageantry, while a four-kilometre series of coastal blowholes known as the ‘Chief’s Whistle’ show nature’s drama as they send Pacific waters up to 300 feet skyward. More exotic scenery awaits in Pago Pago, swathed in lush green and crowned by the Rainmaker as Mt Pioa is known. Encounter snapshots of history in Hawaii. On the Big Island, see strangely preserved lava trees, then pay your respects at Oahu’s poignant USS Missouri and USS Arizona memorials in Pearl Harbor. Soon San Francisco will capture your heart during an overnight call, before Puntarenas leads you into the bountiful forests of Costa Rica.
Islands that lead you home Which side of Aruba will leave the most vivid impression? Oranjestad, full of activity and gabled houses painted in bright colours or the sparse desert of Arikok National Park, spiked with cacti and hiding dramatic caves inhabited by fruit bats. Grand Cayman invites you to discover – and send postcards from – Hell, so called because of its dark jagged rocks. Most of the island is heavenly though, especially the soft beaches and famous rum cakes. Take a brief pause from island life in Fort Lauderdale, maybe to witness its waterways lined by millionaire mansions. Then, some three months since you last spanned the Atlantic, you cross in the opposite direction via Madeira, swathed in exotic plants, fruit trees and flowers, and stunning mountain scenery.
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