If you're thinking of going all the way to New Zealand, for the love of god don't spend all your time in Auckland.
My wife and I also had our 10 year wedding anniversary this year, and before we had kids a couple of years ago, we travelled to 4 or 5 countries every year - so must've done about 30 countries.
New Zealand was easily our favourite (South Island). Followed by South Africa. Japan and Canada are still on the list to do.
I'll try to get some pics up, but the scenery in NZ was absolutely breathtaking. Like nowhere else we've seen. We made it into a bit of a road trip, landed in Christchurch (a couple of days after the earthquake) and drove to Akaroa for the first day, then drove across to queenstown with a couple of stops in between.
Highlights were plentiful:
- The drive through the mountains to akaroa at sunset, when it felt like we were driving on mars. In fact every drive was spectacular!
- Akaroa itself was beautiful
- We stopped off a night at lake tekapo - which is powerade blue! And the sky above it is a world heritage sight, so many stars!
- Helicopter trip over a glacier, then landed on a mountain
- Paragliding off a mountain near Queenstown
- Jet-boating in a canyon
If that's the kind of hol you like, I'd highly recommend it, and can recommend hotels too.
If you want a beach hol, Maldives, Seychelles and Mauritius are all good - but have a think about Langkawi combined with KL - we really enjoyed that too.
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