New Zealand: The Best Tourist Destination in The World?

“As an Australian, there are certain things that are hard to admit,” writes Ben Groundwater for Traveller.

“New Zealand is… Awesome. Incredible. Beautiful. In fact for travellers looking for an overseas experience, it might just be the best destination in the world,” he says.

“It’s hard to admit this because we’ve already given the Kiwis so much,” Groundwater writes. “So it can hurt to concede that the country those Kiwis all come from is also spine-tinglingly, eye-poppingly amazing.”

Australians tend to push to the back of their mind the fact that New Zealand is only “a three-hour flight away lies an alpine paradise, a place of almost unfairly beautiful scenery, of snow-capped peaks, azure lakes, rolling green hills and clear mountain streams.”

“Kiwis are actually some of the friendliest people that a traveller could hope to come across,” he says.

“It’s a traveller’s paradise. You have to admit it.”

Read the full original story by Ben Groundwater, Traveller.com.au., November 8 2014

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