New Zealand has been high on our travel bucket list and we cannot wait to check it out!

Our flight to Auckland connects through SYD so we decided to extend the layover and spend 2 nights exploring Sydney. We will be staying at the Pullman Quay Grand Sydney Harbour Hotel for a taste of luxury before moving to a campervan for our road trip around New Zealand!

5-course meal with wine pairing

ZEALANDIA is the world’s first fully-fenced urban ecosanctuary, with an extraordinary 500-year vision to restore a Wellington valley’s forest and freshwater ecosystems as closely as possible to their pre-human state. The 225 hectare ecosanctuary is a groundbreaking conservation project that has reintroduced 18 species of native wildlife back into the area, 6 of which were previously absent from mainland New Zealand for over 100 years.

We pick up our campervan in Picton in the Marlborough region and drop it off in Queenstown 10 days later!

We fly from NYC - LAX - SYD and spend two nights in Sydney. We would love to see a show at the Opera House while we're in town!

We fly from Sydney, Australia to Wellington, New Zealand. After 2 nights in Wellington, we take the ferry to the South Island, where we pick up our campervan and start our road trip! This ferry ride is about 3 hours of gorgeous views and we cannot wait to experience it!

The boutique estate and restaurant is now widely acclaimed as one of the best in New Zealand

Coach takes us from Queenstown to Milford Sound, where we will board an overnight cruise. The 4-hour drive is apparently as much a scenic experience as the fiord itself.

Exploring the "8th wonder of the world" by overnight boat cruise.

We are staying on Waiheke Island, a 34 minute ferry ride from Auckland, for our last night of our honeymoon.

We're staying on a working farm for 2 nights in Wanaka. We're welcome to feed the baby goats, but hopefully that's where the farm works ends!