Adventure NZ

Southern Traverse
Southern Traverse
Wednesday, 14 June 2017
Again, keen to share our love of the South Island in our adopted country with other like-minded...
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Hokianga Safari 2017
Wednesday, 17 May 2017
It had been three years since the last Hokianga Safari (the 2015 event was cancelled due...
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Cam Vernon’s Nissan Safari work truck
Wednesday, 17 May 2017
Ramarama (Auckland) contractor Cam Vernon’s hard-driving Nissan Safari keeps popping up...
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Rangitikei Station to Station 4WD Trek
Rangitikei Station to Station 4WD Trek
Wednesday, 19 April 2017
This year’s Rangitikei Station to Station 4WD Trek was a one-day event held on Saturday March...
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A West Coast weekend
A West Coast weekend
Wednesday, 19 April 2017
The Nelson 4 Wheel Drive Club started 2017 with a very quiet January but come February we...
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Festive season escape
Thursday, 16 March 2017
We left Wellington early for a run over the Rimutaka Hills and up SH2 to Eketahuna...
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Sean Craig’s ’83 M-B G-Wagon
Wednesday, 15 March 2017
That's an interesting looking G-Wagon Sean. Let's start this off with the basics like specific model...
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Operation Sterling
Operation Sterling
Wednesday, 15 February 2017
It had been a long time since David Coxon’s last visit to the army land at Waiouru, and... 
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Favourite 4WD trips – Murray Taylor
Favourite 4WD trips – Murray Taylor
Wednesday, 07 December 2016
Questions. The Editor of this fine journal is full of them. For instance...
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Magadan on the menu
Magadan on the menu
Wednesday, 16 November 2016
New Zealand Self Drive Tour operator Overland Journeys have just completed another season of...
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Like Scotland on steroids
Like Scotland on steroids
Wednesday, 16 November 2016
The idea was simple. Go to New Zealand, get a truck and travel around living inside it...
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High Country River run pic
High Country river run
Thursday, 20 October 2016
Being a member of the Southern Trail Blazers 4WD club of Gore has given me the opportunity to...
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99 Rivers pic One river the easy way
99 Rivers - Summer fun in the south
Thursday, 22 September 2016
99 Rivers would be a group experience first and foremost, focusing as much on the people...
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High Country Heritage
Wednesday, 17 August 2016
Asking “how four-wheel-drive a four-wheel-drive trip will be?” was an auspicious start for this...
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Recovery Equipment
Wednesday, 20 April 2016
Greg has four Toyota Land Cruisers, two 80 Series vehicles and two 100 series units. The...
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Rally Tours’ Silk Road 4x4 expedition
Wednesday, 16 September 2015
On July 15 this year a three-4WD Rally Tours NZ Silk Road 4x4 expedition convoy arrived in Vladivostok, Russia’s far eastern seaport after being on the road for 75 days and covered 19,000km passing...
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Date with the Dakar
Monday, 15 September 2014
Way back when, ‘back in the day’ as the kids’ say, Kiwi country singer John Hore (later to become better known as John Grenell) adopted a song by Australian counterpart Geoff Mack call, ‘I’ve Been...
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Sand, Wind and Stars
Monday, 11 August 2014
Seventy years after the Long Range Desert Group's exploits became the very stuff of Boy's Own adventures, a diverse group from Egypt, England, Sweden and the US came together to follow in its tyre...
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Rally Tours goes global
Thursday, 23 January 2014
Rally Tours NZ director Greg Paul has just announced the company’s exciting 2014/2015 tour programme, with self-drive 4WD tours to places as diverse as Vladivostok in Russia, Lima in Peru, and Kenya...
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Russian Arctic - a different world
Tuesday, 14 June 2011
In any other country the old guy would be eligible for some sort of social help. He lives in a wooden shack km away from the nearest other wooden shack, drinks water from a well and eats fish he...
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Rally Tours off to Silk Road
Wednesday, 24 March 2010
After a very successful 45 day Beijing to Paris self drive tour in 2009 – featured in NZ4WD magazine in Ausgust and September last year - Rally Tours NZ is expanding its horizons into central Asia....
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Kiwis Tackle Peking to Paris
Thursday, 23 April 2009
It’s a trip of a lifetime – and a bunch of Kiwis and their 4WDs are off on a “Journey through time” expedition to trace the route of the Peking to Paris Raid of 1907. Organised by Rally Tours NZ, the...
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