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Aotearoa Adventures: The New Zealand Travel Podcast
Explore New Zealand with Aotearoa Adventures - your ultimate guide to travel, adventure, and the outdoors. Each week, host Abigail Hannah brings you inspiring stories from everyday people, covering tramping, vanlife, bikepacking, road trips, and so much more. Get beginner tips and practical advice for every adventure, from camping under the stars to multi-week expeditions. Whether you’re a local, on a working holiday, or visiting, this podcast will inspire you to explore New Zealand deeper and…
Episodes
Aotearoa Adventures: The New Zealand Travel Podcast032: Ruapehu and Solo Tramping in the Backcountry with Hazel Phillips
Hazel Phillips describes herself as backcountry addict and a Ruapehu addict. She shares about the "adventure bender" she went on which lead to her authoring…
Aotearoa Adventures: The New Zealand Travel Podcast031: Falling in Love with New Zealand with Travel Blogger Tara Tavener
Tara Tavener first stepped foot in New Zealand in 2011, as a uni student on an exchange program to Palmerston North. She fell in love with the country and has…
Aotearoa Adventures: The New Zealand Travel Podcast030: Hiking the Milford Track in Fiordland with Sam Fulton
Sam Fulton moved to New Zealand just before the pandemic and found herself living in the country's outdoor capital, Christchurch. She quickly fell in love with…
Aotearoa Adventures: The New Zealand Travel Podcast029: The Red Canoe at Tasman Glacier with Guy and Alisha
Guy and Alisha first met on a photo mission out at Piha. Fast-forward a couple of years and they got married, moved to Christchurch and continued to adventure…
Aotearoa Adventures: The New Zealand Travel Podcast028: Mueller Hut and Hiking as a Family with Jen Parkes
Jen Parkes is a mother of three and says, "I was a city girl!" Yet now she finds herself on hikes with her family in New Zealand's beautiful backcountry - and…
Aotearoa Adventures: The New Zealand Travel Podcast027: Experiencing the Night Sky and Astrophotography with Larryn Rae
Many of us look up at the night sky with childlike wonder. Larryn Rae has taken this fascination and built a career in astrophotography. From growing up in…
Aotearoa Adventures: The New Zealand Travel Podcast026: Abel Tasman National Park and Adventure Tourism with Kyle Mulinder
Kyle Mulinder moved to Abel Tasman 20 years ago for a "boring" sea kayaking job - and never left. Better known by his Instagram handle @barekiwi, I talk to…
Aotearoa Adventures: The New Zealand Travel PodcastBONUS: 2022 Wrapped
Abigail Hannah reflects on the first year of the Aotearoa Adventures Podcast, the epic journey it has been and what's to come in 2023. Tune in for a review of…
Aotearoa Adventures: The New Zealand Travel Podcast025: Sailing, Racing and the Best of the Hauraki with Stephanie Haden
Having almost drowned twice as a child, no one thought Stephanie would grow up to love the ocean. Now she spends all her time outside of work sailing, scuba…
Aotearoa Adventures: The New Zealand Travel Podcast024: A Lifetime of Adventure and a Few Close Calls with Russell Jennings
Russell's adventures started during school, when he would skip class to explore the local forest and bush. Now retired, he's walked and cycled most of the…
Aotearoa Adventures: The New Zealand Travel Podcast023: Hiking while Pregnant and Gillespie Pass with Alice
After being away for ten years, Alice recently moved back to the deep south, an hour from the farm she grew up on. She loves how close she's located to prime…
Aotearoa Adventures: The New Zealand Travel Podcast022: Living, Working and Travelling in NZ as an Expat with Justine Jehanno
Justine Jehanno grew up in the French countryside and when she met her partner, Ben, their passion to see the world sparked their travels. They called Aotearoa…
Aotearoa Adventures: The New Zealand Travel Podcast021: Wellington Gems and Travelling Locally with Tilleigh Ultra
Hailing from Upper Hutt, Tilleigh Ultra shares how her childhood was filled with local trips in and around the North Island. As she got older, she grew an…
Aotearoa Adventures: The New Zealand Travel Podcast020: Travelling the South Island with Dogs with Courtney Mellow
While some people find that they can't travel because they have to look after their pets, Courtney Mellow has a better idea - take your furbabies on your…
Aotearoa Adventures: The New Zealand Travel Podcast019: Swimming the Length of the Clutha River with Rob Hutchings
Meet Rob Hutchings, a chiropractor during the week and a triathlete and marathon swimmer on the weekends. Rob faced hardship in his childhood with an abusive…
Aotearoa Adventures: The New Zealand Travel Podcast018: Slow Travel and Mental Wellbeing with Pamela Edmondson
Pamela Edmondson used slow travel as a tool to get out of a panic disorder. She says, "slow travel found me." Pamela has lived a turbulent life, growing up in…
Aotearoa Adventures: The New Zealand Travel Podcast017: Enchaining New Zealand's 3000m Peaks with Alastair and Hamish
Alastair McDowell and Hamish Fleming set out to do something no one had done before. Mountaineers often summit New Zealand's 3000m peaks over their entire…
Aotearoa Adventures: The New Zealand Travel Podcast016: Exploring the Nelson Lakes National Park with Mel White
Living in Marlborough, Mel White has the Nelson Lakes National Park on her doorstep. She shares about where her sense of adventure began - from annual holidays…
Aotearoa Adventures: The New Zealand Travel Podcast015: Hiking Old Ghost Road as a Family with Sonia Barrish
With an 11 week old baby and a 4 year old, Sonia and her husband walked Aotearoa's longest continuous track - the 85 km long Old Ghost Road. Sonia got into…
Aotearoa Adventures: The New Zealand Travel Podcast014: Snowsports in Aotearoa with Olympian Anja Barugh
Anja Barugh is a half-pipe skiier who competed for Team New Zealand in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. She shares the journey from her first time on skiis at…
Aotearoa Adventures: The New Zealand Travel Podcast013: Bikepacking from Cape Reinga to Bluff with Greg and Lauren
Meet Greg and Lauren Cayford, the father-daughter duo that cycled 3,000 km from Cape Reinga to Bluff in 22 days. Following her battle with cancer a few years…
Aotearoa Adventures: The New Zealand Travel Podcast012: Travelling with Pets in New Zealand with Tegan
She visited over 60 countries before she visited the South Island, but now Tegan is excited to call Aotearoa home and makes the most travelling on the…
Aotearoa Adventures: The New Zealand Travel Podcast011: Creating the Roady App with Roscoe Price Moor
When the pandemic disrupted Roscoe's travel company, he pivoted the business and created the Roady App. Pitching to investors at a shark-tank like situation…
Aotearoa Adventures: The New Zealand Travel Podcast010: Exploring Aotearoa with a Toddler with Shoshannah
Growing up on an isolated farm next to the ocean and hiking a lot as a kid, Shoshannah's life took a turn when she broke her back skiing in Canada…
Aotearoa Adventures: The New Zealand Travel Podcast009: Solo Hiking the Routeburn Track with Emily
Just a month out, Emily booked Great Walk tickets from someone else's cancellation. She then started training for what would be her first solo overnight…
Aotearoa Adventures: The New Zealand Travel Podcast008: Living on the Road for Three Years with Goose and Ellen
Although #vanlife has been glamourised on social media in recent years, Goose and Ellen open up about the realities of living on the road full-time, without a…
Aotearoa Adventures: The New Zealand Travel Podcast007: Walking the Length of the South Island with Aimee Roberts
The Te Araroa Trail stretches from Cape Reinga in the north to Bluff in the south. Aimee Roberts spent a couple of months walking the South Island section of…
Aotearoa Adventures: The New Zealand Travel Podcast006: 4WD Land Cruiser Adventures with Bri Woolnough
You'll find her bouncing up a dirt track or hooning down the beach in her 70 series Land Cruiser named Sunny. Meet Bri Woolnough, a Wanaka-based photographer…
Aotearoa Adventures: The New Zealand Travel Podcast005: Pouakai Circuit and Syme Hut with Kristina Montgomerie
An outdoor enthusiast, Kristina Montgomerie has a giant spreadsheet of all the hikes she wants to complete in Aotearoa. In this episode, she shares some of her…
Aotearoa Adventures: The New Zealand Travel Podcast004: Hiking to Alex Knob, Glacier Views with Lucy
Since age seven, Lucy spent her weekends on family camping trips and gradually built up to longer day-hikes and Great Walks across Aotearoa. Now in her teens…
Aotearoa Adventures: The New Zealand Travel Podcast003: Hiking the Kepler Track in Fiordland with Dua
Dua's journey of growth from the Kepler Track being her first ever hike to being her first multiday hike a couple years later is inspiring. Her passion for…
Aotearoa Adventures: The New Zealand Travel Podcast002: Vanlife on a Working Holiday Visa with Harry and Lydia
Originally from the UK, Harry and Lydia have been travelling for the last year - first to Australia, then NZ, and they’re now in Bali! I talk to them about…
Aotearoa Adventures: The New Zealand Travel Podcast001: Helicopter over Aoraki with Billy Nunweek
No one is quite sure if he’s an aerial or landscape photographer, but we know he’s great with a camera. We first met on the shores of Lake Pukaki, under Mt…
Aotearoa Adventures: The New Zealand Travel Podcast000: Pilot: Meet your host, Abigail Hannah
From growing up in India, to slowly falling in love with Aotearoa, Abigail discovered a new love and passion for travel. Tune into the very first episode where…
Aotearoa Adventures: The New Zealand Travel PodcastWelcome to the Aotearoa Adventures Podcast!
Welcome to Aotearoa Adventures, with your host, Abigail Hannah, the podcast for everything you need to know to travel New Zealand. I talk to photographers…