Waikato

We were invited to check out the newest addition to the lush Waikato festival scene – Feast Waikato, food festival like you’ve never seen before. For a whole weekend, there were degustations in local restaurants, food workshops, outdoor cinema that everyone was talking about and, of course, tours to private vineyards, breweries, cheese factories and other intriguing places that are normally close for public.

Sunsets are gorgeous. Period. But I think, we all agree that while some of them come and go, others are born to become the brightest memories.

Tauranga lures tourists in with its magnificent beaches; Rotorua boasts extraordinary mud pools, geysers and colourful steamy lakes; Taupo relies on its giant lake as a great source of activities for tourists all year round… It might seem that despite being New Zealand’s fourth largest city, landlocked Hamilton will never be that attractive to visitors. But don’t be fooled by the first impression! It’s proximity to Hobbiton is definitely not the only reason to visit Hamilton.