New Zealand Herald - Adventure TravelLatest Content for Adventure TravelSamoa: Pago Pago puts its festive foot forward- September 22, 2008 It's 8am. I feel like shouting "land ahoy!" Outside my cabin window is a beautiful, lush tropical island. The sea has changed from deep ocean blue to emerald green. It's our first sighting of land for days and it's exciting. Everyone...http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=465&objectid=10530413&ref=rss Turangi: Go with the flow- September 22, 2008 I'm standing knee-deep in the tumbling torrents of the Tongariro River, casting a hopeful wet fly on an expectant leader from a trusty seven-weight rod. I'm looking to catch a fine rainbow trout for dinner. When the trout strikes...http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=465&objectid=10531516&ref=rss Based on a true story- September 22, 2008 The race now completed, Matt Kennedy-Good looks back at the highs and lows of the London to Ulan Bator car rally. I agreed to go on the rally largely because of ignorance. Central Asia was a great unknown. No one I knew had been...http://blogs.nzherald.co.nz/blog/mongolian-car-rally/2008/9/11/based-true-story/?ref=rss&a... One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest- September 22, 2008 "You want more melon" Marta asked, sweat beading on her forehead, her eyes not quite focussing. I sighed, nodding. It was too hot. Perhaps 45 degrees. Although a dry heat, in a small, luggage filled car it was oppressive, exhausting...http://blogs.nzherald.co.nz/blog/mongolian-car-rally/2008/8/14/one-flew-over-cuckoos-nest/... Fiji highlands a step into the past- September 22, 2008 My heart went into my mouth when I saw the torrent of brown water rushing across the ford. The drive across the swollen river was our last obstacle to reach a remote Fijian village after struggling along rough, unsealed roads for...http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=465&objectid=10530415&ref=rss Hanoi hustle- September 22, 2008 Two and a half weeks in 'Nam begins with a punch in the face. Or at least that's what the humidity in this city of cassette-shaped buildings, winding roads, motorbikes, turgid lakes and history triumphant and tragic feels like. One...http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=465&objectid=10529326&ref=rss Queenstown: Wildest beats of the heart- September 22, 2008 It's official - if you stump up the courage to do adventurous hijinks in Queenstown, the heart really does start to pound. With the word adrenaline linked to Queenstown so often - think AJ Hackett or reality TV star Jack Osbourne's...http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=465&objectid=10532440&ref=rss Uluru: Dream weaver- September 22, 2008 Uluru at the close of another cloudless day in the desert. In the designated "sunset viewing spot" a few kilometres from the big red rock, campervans and cars are arriving. In this tiny part of the seemingly endless landscape, the...http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=465&objectid=10530334&ref=rss Confessions of a wheezy rider- September 22, 2008 I don't tell anyone it took a divorce, a bad back, hair sprouting out of my nostrils and a sudden aversion to young people before I was ready to face the obvious - I was in the throes of a mid-life crisis. I chose a newspaper's...http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=465&objectid=10529260&ref=rss NZ's great but no place like gnome- September 22, 2008 The British owner of a stolen garden gnome taken on a world journey said he enjoyed his adventures in New Zealand. Murphy the 3.5kg gnome was taken from pensioner Eve Stuart-Kelso's Gloucestershire garden about 10 months ago and...http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=465&objectid=10526962&ref=rss |