RV Travel Lifestyle

RV Travel Lifestyle, New Zealand’s longest-running NZ-owned motorhome travel publication. We visit NZ’s most beautiful spots north to south from Cape Reinga to Stewart Island and everywhere in between. Hire or buy an RV for an amazing way to explore our pristine and often wild places. We visit cycleways, historic and cultural sites, Department of Conservation parks, stunning beach and mountain destinations to inspire our readers, along with major cities and small towns, and showcase activities from fishing to motor racing, wine tours to music festivals and shopping. We review RVs, and travellers share their experiences. An excellent publication for those travelling around New Zealand to self-drive an RV or car, and see the best NZ can offer.

RV Travel Lifestyle

Cooler autumn nights

A Favourite Road Trip

PLB (personal locator beacon) prevented a potential disaster

In the Company of Giants • We walk humbled beneath ancient kauris, hear haunting birdcalls, smell exotic tropical flowers and swim beneath a thundering waterfall.

WALKING BACK IN TIME • A walk that combines two reserves, four pā sites and a beautiful beach

The French Connection • How does Ngāti Kura, the tangata whenua of Matauri Bay in Northland, have a link to spies, espionage and a nuclear incident?

One Man’s Hobby and His Marvellous Shed • Win Matthews is the ultimate Mr Fixit. He’s clearly a mechanical wizard. With a small smile and a lot of enthusiasm he sits within the museum he has created and chats to visitors about his passion. It’s a mini wonderland, a treasure trove with gems wherever you look.

Pedalling under Pōhutukawa • There’s nothing better than a trail where you can inhale the salty ocean air and hear the breakers crash on sand, while cycling through coastal pōhutukawa forest and gentle dunes – that’s what the Waiotahe cycle trail west of Ōpōtiki delivers.

A Great Walk - Raising the Devil • Gary maps the Four Peaks High-Country Track, a mountainous partial loop walk where trampers spend their second night in the oldest surviving hut in the country.

Fragile but beautiful • Famous for its pristine night skies, breath-taking mountains and luscious blue lakes, the Mackenzie region offers visitors an awe-inspiring experience. Kathy Catton shares her highlights.

A Great Walk - Logging the Rakiura • Gary maps the Rakiura Track, a gentle, typically three-day Great Walk that offers a sample of Stewart Island’s national park paradise.

SOUTHERN ODYSSEY • Allan Dick heads out on a great southern loop, starting and finishing in Oamaru and including New Zealand’s deepest lake — and finds that we have our country back

FOOD RECIPES ROAD KAI

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Cub Campers fast set-up impresses

Darwinian evolution of campervans • Regular reader Richard Longley is converting a 2012 Nissan Civilian ex-kindergarten bus, 6200mm long, 1920mm wide. This issue we introduce Richard, his love for campervans and home-build conversions and the start of the project ahead, which will be shared with RV Lifestyle readers to completion.

Elddis range joins TrailLite ranks

Merrell

Coast-to-coast road trip