I am sure I was able to see much more of the real New Zealand in these 10 days than I could have independently. Dave, UK

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All who wander are not lost.
J.R.R. Tolkien

Very good value, fantastic guide, would recommend to anyone. Will never forget the things I've seen and done. Clare, UK

Outdoor tip

Can't sleep without a pillow? Pack your sleeping bag stuff sack with soft items (clothes are ideal) to make a comfortable pillow. Try folding the clothes rather than just stuffing them in to avoid annoying ridges. If you don't like the feel of the stuff sack against your face then try wrapping it in a clean fleece.

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Classic Quotes We Rather Like...

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

Mark Twain.

When you see someone putting on big boots, you can be sure adventure is about to happen.

Winnie the Pooh

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take the chance?

Edgar Bergen

If you enjoy what you do, you’ll never work another day in your life.

Confucius

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Lao-Tsu

The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it.

Napoleon Bonaparte

When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.

Susan Heller

A secret known to three people can be kept – if two of them are dead.

Benjamin Franklin

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain, and most fools do.

Benjamin Franklin

Energy and persistence alter all things.

Benjamin Franklin

Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Efficiency is intelligent laziness.

David Dunham

An optimist is someone who says a glass is half full. A pessimist says it’s half empty. A reengineering consultant says, looks like you’ve got twice as much glass as you need.

Anonymous

What we obtain too cheap we esteem too little; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

Thomas Paine

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

Francis Bacon

The safest way to approach lava is to have another person with you, and he goes first.

Volcano photographer Villi Knudsen

When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.

Edward Dahlberg

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

John Lennon

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

Vernon Law

Human ingenuity will never discover any inventions more beautiful, more appropriate or more direct than nature, because in her inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.

Leonardo DaVinci

Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the things you did. So, throw off the bowlines; sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Mark Twain

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

Paul Theroux

All who wander are not lost.

J.R.R. Tolkien

It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door. You step into the Road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.

J.R.R Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

The world is a book, of which those who stay in one place read only one page.

St. Augustine

The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.

Jean Kerr

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

Mary Wilson Little

This is fine country for the waterproof explorer.

Richard Henry, on New Zealand’s Fiordland region, 1896

Mehemea koe na tuoho, meinga ki te maunga teitei.
[If you should bow to greatness, let it be to a lofty mountain.]

Maori proverb

There will be 5,000 cars built at the most. There are not any more chauffeurs to steer them.

Gottlieb Daimler

640K should be enough for anybody.

Bill Gates, 1981

Outdoor tip

Classic Quotes We Rather Like...

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

When you see someone putting on big boots, you can be sure adventure is about to happen.

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take the chance?

If you enjoy what you do, you’ll never work another day in your life.

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it.

When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.

A secret known to three people can be kept – if two of them are dead.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain, and most fools do.

Energy and persistence alter all things.

Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.

Efficiency is intelligent laziness.

An optimist is someone who says a glass is half full. A pessimist says it’s half empty. A reengineering consultant says, looks like you’ve got twice as much glass as you need.

What we obtain too cheap we esteem too little; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

The safest way to approach lava is to have another person with you, and he goes first.

When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

Human ingenuity will never discover any inventions more beautiful, more appropriate or more direct than nature, because in her inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.

Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the things you did. So, throw off the bowlines; sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

All who wander are not lost.

It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door. You step into the Road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.

The world is a book, of which those who stay in one place read only one page.

The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

This is fine country for the waterproof explorer.

Mehemea koe na tuoho, meinga ki te maunga teitei. [If you should bow to greatness, let it be to a lofty mountain.]

There will be 5,000 cars built at the most. There are not any more chauffeurs to steer them.

640K should be enough for anybody.

Mehemea koe na tuoho, meinga ki te maunga teitei.
[If you should bow to greatness, let it be to a lofty mountain.]