References

Books:
The Lonely Planet Guide to New Zealand. This book was useful, but did overexagerate things sometimes... like calling the cable car in Wellington exhilarating. Useful to have around, and ours was definitely well used. (buy) or check out Richard's book review

New Zealand Insight Guide. This book is a very good coffee table type book, it has all the facts and some wonderful pictures. We didn't use it much on our travels, relying more on the Lonely Planet, but it has some good pre-trip reading about history, culture etc. (buy)

Web Sites:
Pure NZ — the tourist information site
TravelPlanner.co.nz — a good informative site, with articles about regions, activities and culture

Travel reports
All obtained from rec.travel.library. The ones I read were (in no particular order) were:

• New Zealand 98 by Alain Staelen
• New Zealand by Nick Jenkins
• New Zealand! by Kennerly Clay
• Wandering Far and Wide (New Zealand and Fiji) by Mr. Moose
• New Zealand trip report Jim Burke
• New Zealand Trip Report by Dave and Kathy Browning

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