Auckland is New Zealand's largest city, which until 1865 was its capital. This is a beautiful port city, one of the few on the planet that has access to different seas.

Hobbiton - a village in New Zealand, artificially created specifically for the filming of the trilogy "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit" based on the works of the same name by J.R. Tolkien.

Wai-O-Tapu (translated from the Maori language as “Sacred Waters”) is an area with high geothermal activity in the south of the Okatayna volcanic center, north of the Reporoa caldera, in the Taupo volcanic zone of the North Island of New Zealand.

At Huka Falls you can witness the phenomenon of natural hydro power with more than 220,000 litres of water per sec barreling over 11meter high waterfall.

Tongariro National Park in the central North Island is New Zealand's oldest reserve. In Tongariro, the Morder was taken from The Lord of the Rings, while the Ngauruhoe volcano acted as the Mount Doom of Orodruin.

Wellington, the capital of New Zealand, is a very cozy and beautiful coastal city in the southwest of the North Island.

Abel Tasman National Park is the only New Zealand coastal national park located between the Golden Bay and Tasman Bay in the northern part of South Island. The park is named after the explorer Abel Tasman, who in 1642 discovered the Country of the Long White Cloud for Europeans.

Punakaiki, or “Pancake Rocks”, is an amazing ensemble of rocks in its natural architecture. They got their name due to the fact that they look like a stack of pancakes laid on top of each other. The only difference is that these pancakes are stone.

The Franz Joseph Glacier is located in Westland National Park on the South Island of New Zealand. Named after the Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph.

In the foothills of the highest New Zealand Alps, surrounded by its brothers Tekapo and Ochau, lies in the southwestern part of the Canterbury region the turquoise lake Pukaki.

Mount Cook is known in the world as Aoraki. This is the highest peak in New Zealand, reaching a height of 3,724 meters.

Lake Wanaka - the fourth largest lake in New Zealand, on the banks of which stands the town of the same name. From Maori, the word Wanaka means “legend”.

“The Eighth Wonder of the World” - that is what John Rudyard Kipling called the 15-km-long Milford Sound fjord that goes into the Tasman Sea.

Queenstown is a wonderful, well-located resort on the shores of Lake Wakatipu, a center of adventure tourism in New Zealand. In the distance you can see the mountains - the Southern Alps, their peaks covered with snow are reflected in the calm and clear waters of the lake.