Starting from the country’s main gateways, such as Auckland and Christchurch, these road trips offer the best chance to ...

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Cook Alpine Salmon shop ... a two-lane track that would take me all the way to Christchurch. ‌On my first day of serious driving, the road wound its way out of wine country and climbed over ...

This area is still prone to earthquakes, most notably along the Alpine fault. Further away from these fault zones the ground is generally more quiescent. Christchurch is over 100 kilometres from ...

The commercial hub of the South Island sits to the east of the Alpine fault that snakes beneath the Southern Alps. But the tremor that left much of central Christchurch in ruins came from a ...

Christchurch would have been subjected to intense ... This is most evident to geologists as the Alpine Fault that runs down the western spine of the land mass. It is these plate movements which ...

An hour’s drive out of Christchurch you’ll feel like you ... And yes the floor is heated for those chilly alpine eves. Spa-inspired treats seem to appear in your bathroom at turndown.