Driving past Butter and Egg road. Driving past Moonlight itself, yet another name on a map that never materialises to anything more than that. There is a recurring theme emerging here.

Auto Route: Driving NZ’s South Island - by Josh McKenzie. Matt Brogan. 22:26 17 August 2008. 0 comments. The fly-drive holiday is an increasingly popular option for visitors to New Zealand.

The South Island’s West Coast is easily one of the best road trips in the world. Photo / BareKiwi This article was one of Herald Travel’s top stories of 2024.

Here then is an easy, three-day South Island road trip from Christchurch to the Otago Peninsula, taking in open plains, cardboard cathedrals, steampunk penguins, a stolid Scottish outpost, weird ...

A road trip in the country’s South Island offered perfect wines, stunning views, intimate restaurants and the chance to make a pilgrimage to a salmon Shangri-La.