The winners of the Herald Travel‘s annual Best Beach competition have been revealed - and the results may come as a surprise.

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On the windswept stretch of Koekohe Beach along New Zealand’s Otago coast, a group of massive, spherical rocks has been ...

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A busy and popular track with locals, visitors "just miss it," Janssen said, despite it being one of the best walks in the Manawatū. The track is a medium 90-minute walk, and is part of the longer ...

A woman from New Zealand has filed three civil lawsuits against best-selling British author Neil Gaiman and his wife, ...