Leisure and lifestyle

Fishing
Whether it’s indoors or outdoors, on the beach or at the theatre, on the playing fields or in the garden, New Zealand has an inexhaustible range of things to do, see and enjoy.
The cultural indoors
Drawing on the richness of a thousand years of South Pacific heritage, New Zealand culture is youthful and diverse.
The great outdoors
Most of us live within half an hour’s drive of the coast, so swimming, boating, diving and fishing are almost national pastimes.
Screens and sounds
New Zealanders are enthusiastic movie-goers. In fact we have one of the highest cinema attendance rates in the world.

Image of Bunjy Jump - Courtesy of AJ Hacket.

 

The giant leap of faith

While New Zealand didn’t invent bungy jumping, a New Zealander certainly pioneered the concept of throwing people off bridges tied to huge rubber bands.

 

Now Queenstown is the official home of bungy in the world and thousands of tourists and New Zealanders flock there each year for their own unique ‘initiation’.