March 2024

If you’re looking for something a little different and outside the normal high seasons for travelling, well here’s a fistful of very compelling reasons to visit New Zealand’s South Island in Autumn. Imagine the colours of the trees in the hills of Old Vermont in the Fall, less crowds, rustic little towns, lofty mountain peaks, brooding lakes and fjiords, fine local wines and friendly locals. Then welcome to Autumn on New Zealand’s South Island.

It’s correctly said the scenery of New Zealand’s South Island is that of a dozen countries rolled into one. Huge beaches and remote coastal expanses, rainforests, stunning lakes, lofty mountains, raging rivers and deep gorges, massive glaciers and lengthy, twisting fiords. Better still is that you can visit any time of the year and not be disappointed with what the seasons have to offer.