With our mild climate, mountains, fast rivers and many marine inlets - every manner of outdoor pursuit can be experienced here! From skiing to sailing from climbing to bungee jumping! For the outdoor enthusiast New Zealand has been described as one great assault course! It’s no wonder that many call it "a whole planet in one country"

New Zealand has more golf-courses per head than any other country in the world - approximately 400! Most golf clubs welcome guests. With New Zealand's temperate climate, golf is a year round sport. Many of the courses are situated in impressive scenery and often offer unique obstacles to the round such as hot mud pools or sheep .

New Zealand's unpolluted lakes & rivers and clean unspoilt coastline make it a fisherman's dream! Trout, salmon and perch have been introduced and New Zealand has some of the best fly fishing in the world. Lake Taupo is famous for it's trout fishing though many lakes and rivers around New Zealand are well stocked with brown and rainbow trout. The best time for salmon fishing in the rivers of the Southern Alps is late summer (January-March).

Sea fishing from both coast and boat are popular. Big game fishing for tuna, shark and marlin is particularly good off North Island's Pacific coast.

Auckland Harbour with its outlying Islands offers a sheltered sailing and boating environment - thus the name “City of Sails”. 1 in 5 Aucklanders has a boat!

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