22 Photos To Inspire You To Visit New Zealand

June 7, 2022 by jordangassner

22 Photos To Inspire You To Visit New Zealand

If you’re planning to visit New Zealand, you’re in for quite a treat. With epic landscapes from the Lord of the Rings, the best “New World” Sauvignon Blancs, and the most friendly people you’ll ever meet, New Zealand is a destination like no other.

Making up two islands in total, New Zealand offers both urban cities and distant countrysides to explore. The best way to travel through New Zealand is undoubtedly by car, as most locations are far-spread and don’t have frequent methods of public transportation.

In terms of activities, take a few Lord of the Rings tours, visit the famous glowworm caves, bungy jump, take a hike on top of glaciers and more!

Visiting New Zealand: Travel Blogger, Jordan Gassner, wearing a cape and walking through the Rivendell archway at Kaitoke Regional Park in New Zealand

Blue-brown water of the Arrow River near Arrowtown, New Zealand is surrounded on both sides with lush green mountain landscape and hints of golden fall color

Visiting New Zealand: Golden Autumn Foilage along a mountainside on the South Island near Queenstown, New Zealand

Visiting New Zealand: A heard of baby cows standing near their mother next to a road in Paradise, New Zealand

Visiting New Zealand: Travel Blogger, Jordan Gassner, throwing up peace signs from a boat tour through Milford Sound on New Zealand's South Island

Visiting New Zealand: Brunette female blogger in white long sleeve, off-shoulder top, skinny jeans and white converse sitting on the rocks along along a glacial pool

Visit New Zealand: Lighthouse Rock and Skippers Canyon Gorge in New Zealand

Visit New Zealand: Travel Blogger, Jordan Gassner kneeling down while attempting to enter a Hobbit House in New Zealand

Visit New Zealand: Travel Blogger, Jordan Gassner wearing a white dress and turquoise cardigan while sitting in front of a blue round door of a Hobbit House in Hobbiton, New Zealand

Visit New Zealand: Travel Blogger, Jordan Gassner wearing a white dress while standing near the clear glacial waters of Lake Pukaki in New Zealand

Visit New Zealand: The lone and famous Wanaka Tree: a willow tree that sits and grows in the southern edge of Lake Wanaka in the Otago region of New Zealand

Visiting New Zealand: The sun shines through through a tunnel of thick, dark green New Zealand bush and onto a light pebbled hiking path on New Zealand's South Island

Visiting New Zealand: Travel Blogger, Jordan Gassner, looking up at the light piercing through the the trees on location where Peter Jackson shot scenes for the Elvish City, Lothlorien, for The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring

Visiting New Zealand: Travel Blogger, Jordan Gassner, standing near a heard of baby cows and their mother in Paradise, New Zealand

Visiting New Zealand: Travel Blogger, Jordan Gassner, and friend glacial hiking through Franz Josef Glacier in New Zealand

Visiting New Zealand: An overhead view of the Turquoise Waters of Shotover Canyon River just outside of Queenstown, New Zealand

Visiting New Zealand: Travel Blogger Jordan Gassner wearing a white dress, turquoise cardigan and white converse and leaning up against the mailbox and "No Admittance except on Party Business"-posted gate at Bag End in the Hobbiton Movie Set at Matamata, New Zealand

Visit New Zealand: Travel Blogger, Jordan Gassner smiling through the wind while looking back over the lookout of the Party Field and Green Dragon Pub in Hobbiton, New Zealand

Visit New Zealand: Travel Blogger, Jordan Gassner wearing a white dress while walking along the main road to Mount Cook in New Zealand

Visit New Zealand: Travel Blogger, Jordan Gassner wearing a lavender sweater and smiling back in a field of purple and pink lupins just offshore Lake Tekapo in New Zealand

Visit New Zealand: Travel Blogger Jordan Gassner wearing a bright turqouise rain coat standing with arms triumphantly spread overhead on top of Roy's Peak Lookout over Lake Wanaka in New Zealand