Waving Mad By Camper

The first rule of campervanning around New Zealand is to wave every time you pass a fellow camper, according to the Daily Mail’s Charlotte Gill who travels in a Kea beginning in Christchurch. “The penny only dropped a few days into our road trip around the South Island, but for the rest of our ten-day trip, we went waving mad,” writes Gill. “In Kaikoura, we met Maurice Manawatu, a Maori from the Ngai Tahu tribe, whose ancestors settled in New Zealand 800 years ago. Maori culture is everywhere in New Zealand, and his fascinating tour taught us about their customs, beliefs, history and their love of music … [After] a final stop in pretty Akaroa, a former French settlement on a peninsula 50 miles south of Christchurch, we’d covered 1,000 miles – and what felt like at least three dazzling countries: one day Scotland, next the Alps, then through a rainforest to emerge in the Lake District.”