New Zealand, Australia, Pacific Island News and Travel Information - April 2005
Kia ora from Christchurch New Zealand. Our online newsletter aims to keep you in touch with the best and most up to date travel services and information we can find for visitors to Australia, New Zealand and the beautiful South Pacific islands.
Please feel free to forward this newsletter onto anyone you know who may be planning to travel our way in the near future. We have plenty of new offers - like the GINZ.com Exclusive Australia and New Zealand Tours - , wonderful accommodations and experiences to recommend to anyone who wishes to discover these exciting destinations. Help is just an email or phone call away! (++64-3-3664486 or 0800 266544 - NZ only)
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All the very best from the Team at GINZ.com
Exclusive 19 Day Guided Tours with Optional Australia Highlights Extension
Alice Springs to Darwin, a campervan trip 'The Explorers Way'
Vatulele Island Resort, Fiji
If you like then idea of a travelling in a small group with an experienced driver and guide through the best that New Zealand has to offer with all transport, top accommodation and the best range of sightseeing and tours organised for you, GINZ is confident that these exclusive tours will fit the bill. You will travel in a group of maximum 16 like minded people and your guide will take care of all bookings and arrangements along the way.
Tours leave Auckland on the 8th December 2005, 15th April 2006 and 9 December 2006 and travel is from Auckland to Rotorua - Napier - flight to Christchurch and then by luxury coach to Oamaru, Dunedin, Queenstown, Fox and Franz Josef Glacier, Punakaiki and then returning to Christchurch. (From Christchurch you are able to fly to Sydney and add on the 9 day highlights of Australia tour - air points are able to be used for this flight if available to you).
Included in the New Zealand tour (PDF format brochure, 1,6 Mb) are 19 nights accommodation, mostly in 4 star hotels, all breakfasts (plus 2 lunches and 1 dinner)all sightseeing and entrance fees except optional activities, coach, ferry and tour guide services.
The highlights of Australia (PDF format brochure, 1,15 Mb) takes in Sydney, Ayers Rock (Uluru), Alice Springs and Melbourne and includes flights within Australia, 8 nights accommodation including breakfast, 3 lunches, 2 dinners, all sightseeing, transport and guide services.
Alternatively you can take a 19 day guided tour of Australia and add on a 9 day highlights of New Zealand.
You can see the complete detailed itineraries and prices for these tours at the above PDF brochures. If you prefer we can send or fax them to you.
GINZ recommends - Exclusive Tours Australia and New Zealand.
See a range of Last-Minute Rental Cars and Last-Minute Hotel specials.
The 1500 km drive from Alice Springs to Darwin along the Stuart Highway, known locally as the Explorers Way or simply the 'Track', is an ideal campervan trip for travellers who wish to experience the true outback atmosphere of rural Australia and meet some 'true blue fair dinkum Aussies along the way'.
The origins of the Stuart Highway lie with the Overland Telegraph Line, completed in 1872 to establish communications between Australia and London. Up until 1942 it remained just a bush track between telegraph stations until the need for an all weather military transport road resulted in a massive construction project to create a highway to get 200,000 troops and supplies up to protect the North of Australia.
Since Neville Shute's classic novel 'A Town Like Alice' was published, Alice has become the most well known rural town in Australia. Leaving Alice, you head North for Tennant Creek, the centre of Australia's last great gold rush. The town sprang up overnight in 1931 after a worker discovered nuggets while digging telegraph line posts. Mining still occurs here and visitors are able to experience an underground replica mine on Battery Hill, owned and run by one of the original miners in the area. Travelling further North to Larrimah, the highway is supported by many roadside inns and rural towns and through large pastoral runs that are part of the cattle empires owned by media mogul Kerry packer and the Sultan of Brunei.
Katherine is the town where the 'Red Centre' begins to merge with the tropical greens of the 'Top End'. A must see is the stunning Katherine Gorge, also known as Nitmiluk, a series of 13 separate canyons cut over a period of 25 million years. A boat cruise or kayak trip is a worthwhile excursion here and freshwater crocodiles are happy to share their watering holes with keen swimmers. At the small gold mining settlement of Pine Creek you can choose to take the Arnhem Highway onto the Kakadu National Park or complete the Explorers Way trail which takes you onto Emerald Springs, Hayes Creek and Adelaide River.
The bustling commercial capital of the Northern Territory, Darwin is home to 50 ethnic groups, a vibrant nightlife and the famous Mindil markets with quality arts and crafts including Aboriginal, music and entertainment. Darwin completes the transition from remote red parched desert environment to the lush tropical shores of the Timor Sea.
GINZ recommends - Motorhomes Northern Territories and accommodation in Alice Springs, Uluru, Kakadu and Darwin.
See a range of Australia Package, Last-Minute Rental car and Last-Minute Hotel specials.
The development of a perfect tropical escape was the vision of Emmy-award winning Australian television producer Henry Crawford, and his creative partner, Martin Livingston, a fifth generation European Fijian. The result is Vatulele (pronounced ‘Vah-too-lay-lay’), on one of the southern islands of the Fijian group. It took two years to find the ideal South Seas location, and three more to enhance the natural beauty of the site with man-made luxury where guests could escape the pressures of their busy lifestyles. Set on a magnificent lagoon, the beauty of the site is coupled with a unique architectural style which includes a wide range of 'hand made' details. This stunning combination has made the resort a favourite in magazines all over the world that feature architecture, style and interior design.
Vatulele was voted Fiji's top resort in the Fiji Excellence in Tourism Awards (Dec 2004). The resort is 'all inclusive' and accommodates just 19 couples. In keeping with the owner's philosophy, there are no TV's, newspapers, telephones, money transactions or shoes. Vatulele is generally acknowledged as one of the most outstanding 'bare-foot' resorts in the world.
For more information see Vatulele honeymoon.
Contact GINZ.com for quotes and further information.
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