South Island
The South Island is renowned for its incredible natural beauty and boasts a series of incredible natural contrasts - with gently rolling hills and pastures on the East Coast and remarkable alpine splendour on the West Coast. It enjoys a temperate climate and features nine national parks with World Heritage sites, fiords and glaciers, lakes, ski areas, stunning coastline, native forest and world-class walking and hiking tracks.
The South Island is glacier country. With the majestic Tasman, Fox and Franz Josef Glaciers located here. Enjoy a multitude of scenic opportunities showcasing their beauty, including a range of walks, hikes, heli-hikes, scenic flights and cruises.
sydney opera house
Sydney Opera House must be one of the most recognisable images of the modern world - up there with the Eiffel Tower and the Empire State Building - and one of the most photographed.Not only is it recognisable, it has come to represent ' Australia '. Although only having been open since 1973, it is as representative of Australia as the pyramids are of Egypt and the Colosseum of Rome.
The Opera House is situated on Bennelong Point, which reaches out into the harbour. The skyline of the Sydney Harbour Bridge , the blue water of the harbour and the Sydney Opera House, viewed from a ferry or from the air, is dramatic and unforgettable.