Northland
- ✔ Visit Cape Reinga
- ✔ Drive on the 90 Mile Beach
- ✔ Go sandboarding on Te Puki Sand Dunes
- ✔ Visit Mangonui Chip Shop
- ✔ See Tāne Mahuta in Waipoua Forest
- ✔ Visit the Bay of Islands
- Go surfing
- Go kayaking
- Go scuba diving
- ✔ Visit Waitangi
- Walk to Cape Brett
- Go on a Hole in the Rock Cruise
- Visit Kawiti Glow Worm Caves
- See Haruru Falls
- ✔ Visit Kerikeri
- ✔ See Rainbow Falls
- ✔ Yoga on Charlies Rock
- ✔ See the Stone Store
- ✔ Nutty Spoon at The Old Packhouse Market
- Visit the Parrot Place
- ✔ Use the Hundertwasser Toilets, Kawakawa
- ✔ Chill in the Nghawa Hot Springs
Auckland
- Visit Waiheke Island
- Visit Tiritiri Matangi Island
- Visit Rangitoto Island
- Snorkel at Goat Island
- ✔ Piha
- ✔ K Road
- ✔ Ponsonby
- ✔ Vulcan lane
- Explore the street art
- ✔ Go up the Skytower
- The Cat Lounge, Glenfield
- ✔ Drinks at Papa Jack's Voodoo Lounge/Cassette 9
- ✔ Ice cream at Giapo
- Food at Revel Cafe
- Visit East West Organics
- Pasifika Festival in March
- The Genuine Hustle Tattoo Shop, Takapuna
Waikato
- Coromandel
- Forests
- Hot Water Beach, Mercury Bay
- The Waterworks
- Cathedral Cove
- ✔ Have a guided tour through Waitomo Glowworm Caves, Otorohanga. $125
- Black Water Rafting Tour through Waitomo Caves
- ✔ Stay at Woodlyn Park, Otorohanga. NZ$200+
- ✔ Hobbiton Movie Set Tour, Matamata. $80+
- Blue Spring, Putaruru
- ✔ Taupo
- ✔ Lake Taupo
- ✔ Huka Falls
- Parasail over the lake
Bay of Plenty
- ✔ Tauranga
- ✔ Climb up Mount Maunganui
- ✔ Rotorua
- Zorbing
- Luging
- ✔ Visit a thermal village
- ✔ Treetop Redwood Walk
- ✔ See the Devil's Bath in Waiotapu
- ✔ Bathe in Kerosene Creek
- Use the Shweeb at Agroventures
- Rainbow Mountain Walk
- Gaze around Kuirau Park
- ✔ Soak my feet in mud at Hells Gate
- ✔ Explore Whakarewarewa
- ✔ Mud pools
- ✔ Geysers
- ✔ Steaming vents
- ✔ Maori arts
Hawke's Bay
- ✔ Napier
- Go on a cycling wine tour
- ✔ Visit Opossum World
- Try wine straight from the barrel
- ✔ Take a picture at Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu
Manawatu-Wanganui
- Walk the Tongariro Crossing
- Hike Mount Doom
Wellington
- Hang out at Waikanae Beach
- ✔ Wellington City
- ✔ Cafe hop in Wellington
- See the Beehive
- ✔ Visit Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand
- Visit the City Gallery
- ✔ Explore Cuba Street
- Go up on the Cable car
- Botanical Gardens
- Space Place at Carter Observatory
- Attend Summer City
- Visit the Weta Cave & Workshop, Wellington
- Find my way to the top of Mount Victoria, Wellington
- Walk the Hutt River Trail, Wellington
- Visit Harcourt Park, Wellington
- Kaitoke Regional Park, Wellington
- Queen Elizabeth Park, Paraparaumu
- Explore the tunnels in Wrights Hill Fortress
- Find the Putangirua Pinnacles, Aorangi Park
- Attend Gold Shears Sheep Shearing Contest in March, Wairarpa
Marlborough
- ✔ Visit Blenheim
- ✔ Cruise the Marlborough Sounds
- ✔ Nelson
- Visit the World of Wearable Art & Classic Cars Museum
Tasman
- ✔ Follow the Farewell Spit/Tuhuroa, Puponga
- Visit Abel Tasman National Park
- Swimming
- Kayaking
- Follow the Coastal Track
- Relax on the beach
- ✔ Takaka
- ✔ Chill at Te Waikoropupū Springs, Takaka
- ✔ Nelson
- ✔ Drive Takaka Hill
- Pic's Peanut Factory
- Fly a plane with U Fly Extreme
Canterbury
- Akaroa
- ✔ Kaikoura
- Look for dolphins, sperm whales, and seals
- Whale watching
- ✔ Christchurch
- ✔ Cathedrals
- Visit World Buskers Festival in January
- Willowbank Wildlife Reserve
- Orana Wildlife Park
- Ride the Christchurch Gondola
- ✔ Visit Canterbury Museum
- ✔ Quake City
- Take the Tranzalpine Train
- Find Castle Hill, Bealey
- Walk up Mount Sunday
- ✔ Find Mount Cook/Aoraki
- Rafting on Rangitita River
- ✔ Travel through Mackenzie Valley
- ✔ Enjoy Lake Pukaki
- ✔ Lake Tekapo
West Coast
- ✔ Spot Mount Earnslaw
- ✔ Franz Josef
- Fox Glacier
- Glacier walking
- Ice climbing
- Heli hiking
- ✔ Punakaiki
- ✔ See the Pancake Rocks at Paparoa National Park
- ✔ Hokitika
- See Mount Earnslaw, West Coast
Otago
- See the Oamaru Blue Penguin Colony, Oamaru
- ✔ Visit Dunedin
- Visit Waitati
- ✔ Walk to Tunnel Beach
- ✔ Walk up Baldwin street - the steepest street in the world
- ✔ Explore Otago Museum
- Visit the Otago Peninsula
- Ski or snowboard on Mount Cardrona, Otago
- See the views of Anduin and Argonath from Chard Farm, Gibbston
- Otago Central Rail Trail
- Nugget Point Lighthouse
- ✔ Shotover River
- ✔ Visit Wanaka
- ✔ Play at Stuart Landsborough's Puzzling World
- River sledging
- ✔ Drive round Lake Wanaka via the Haast Pass
- ✔ See Mount Aspiring
- Tramping, mountain biking, climbing, canyoning, kayaking
- ✔ Find the Cardrona Bra Fence
- ✔ Visit Arrowtown
- Picture the Ford of Bruinen
- Relax at Wilcox Green
- ✔ Visit Queenstown
- ✔ Eat a burger at Fergburger
- ✔ Chill out by Lake Wakatipu
- Take a jump at Kawarau Bridge Bungy
Southland
- ✔ Fjordland National Park
- ✔ Stay in Te Anau
- ✔ See the Takahé bird statue
- ✔ Cruise through the Milford Sound
- Visit The Waiau River
- Visit the Doubtful Sound
- ✔ See The Chasm
- Find Fangorn Forest
- Do one of the major walks: Milford, Kepler, Routeburn
- The Dusky Track
- ✔ Stay in Te Anau
- Surf at Porpoise Bay (and meanwhile spot a dolphin!)
- Visit Stewart Island ($80+)
- Rakiura National Park
- Rakiura track great walk (2-3 days)
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- ✔ Try L&P Soda
- ✔ Try an Afghan Biscuit
- Eat some pineapple lumps
- Make a vegan lolly cake
- ✔ Drink New Zealand wine
- See a kiwi
- ✔ Maori experience
- Go on a Lord of the Rings tour
- Go White Water Rafting
- Go blokarting
- Go hiking in the green hills
- Go luging down a mountain
- Cycling in the North Island
- Sea kayaking
- ✔ See sheep in the South Island
- See an All Blacks Rugby Game live
- Canoe on Whanganui River
- Go Zorbing
- Go Aqua-zorbing or Hydra-Zorbing
- Options
- Diving: Bay of Islands Maritime Park, Hauraki Gulf Maritime Park, Great Barrier Island, Goat island, Marlborough Sounds
- ✔ Surfing: Ragland, Marlborough Sounds, Wellington
- ✔ Jet boating: Queenstown, Bay of Islands
- Cross the international dateline to go back in time
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