A nation of breathtaking geological drama and extraordinary natural magnificence compressed into two main islands of such diverse and consistently stunning landscape beauty that every bend in the road reveals a new perspective more breathtaking than the last — where Queenstown’s adventure-charged shores of Lake Wakatipu sit beneath the jagged Remarkables mountain range in a setting of extraordinary alpine grandeur, the ancient glacial fjords of Fiordland’s Milford Sound plunge through walls of rainforest-covered rock to a sea of extraordinary still water reflecting peaks of breathtaking vertical drama, and the rolling green hills of the Waikato’s Hobbiton film set transport travellers into the most beloved and most vividly realised imaginary landscape in the history of modern cinema.