title: Lonely Planet Regional Guide New Zealand's North Island (Travel Guide)
author: Lonely Planet
description: Born in Rotorua and raised in Auckland, proud North Islander Brett still proudly supports the Auckland Blues rugby team, but needs no encouragement at all to regale friends and family with stories of wild West Coast scenery, hang gliding above Queenstown, and taste-testing South Island micro-breweries. Six weeks on the road impressed him so much that in his retirement Brett plans to build scale model matchstick replicas of all of the one-way bridges on the West Coast. Home is currently a cosy apartment in Auckland with Carol. It may not be big enough for all those bridges.
zlib_text: CONTENTS
  PLAN YOUR TRIP
  Welcome to New Zealand
  New Zealand Classic Trips
  New Zealand Highlights
  If You Like…
  Need to Know
  Auckland City Guide
  Wellington City Guide
  Christchurch City Guide
  Queenstown City Guide
  ON THE ROAD
  AUCKLAND & THE NORTH
  1 Northland & the Bay of Islands
  2 East & West Coast Explorer
  3 Coromandel Peninsula
  4 Waiheke Island Escape
  ROTORUA & THE CENTRAL NORTH ISLAND
  5 Taranaki Wanderer
  
  6 Tongariro National Park Loop
  7 Thermal Discover
  8 Waves & Caves to Whanganui
  WELLINGTON & THE EAST COAST
  9 North Island Southern Loop
  10 Pacific Coast Explorer
  MARLBOROUGH & NELSON
  11 Kaikoura Coast
  12 Sunshine & Wine
  13 Tasman & Golden Bays
  14 Going West: from Picton to Westport
  CANTERBURY & THE WEST COAST
  15 The West Coast Road
  16 Alpine Pacific Triangle
  17 Coast to Coast
  18 Two Passes
  19 Inland Scenic Route
  20 Alps to Ocean
  21 Southern Alps Circuit
  QUEENSTOWN & THE SOUTH
  22 Milford Sound Majesty
  23 Central Otago Explorer
  24 Southern Scenic Route
  
  25 Otago Heritage Trail
  26 East Co