Best Beach Huts: Abel Tasman National Park
Abel Tasman is New Zealand’s smallest but most popular national park and home to some of the most uncrowded and unspoilt beaches in New Zealand.
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Pacific
Currency as Cultural Craft: Shell Money
The traditional currency of the Pacific Islands is shell money; beautiful strings of painstakingly carved discs of shell which are strung together to make ‘tafuliae’.
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Ancient Mariners of the Pacific
Traditional Polynesian navigation was used for thousands of years to make long voyages across thousands of miles of the vast, unexplored Pacific Ocean.
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Lap-Lap Pudding from the Pacific Islands
Lap-lap is made from grated vegetables such as manioc, taro or yam which are soaked in coconut milk to form a paste.
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Tribal Gathering: The Goroka Show
The Goroka show is partly a tourist event, but it’s a rare opportunity for travellers to experience the customs of over a hundred tribes that populate the Papua New Guinea highlands. During the course of the weekend the tribes gather for music, dancing, showing-off and extraordinary displays of tribal rituals.
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