AGE Highlights in New Zealand

• Learning about Maori culture and staying on a Marae (Maori ancestral meeting place)
• Gaining an understanding of local ecology and conservation efforts
• Studying New Zealand's "mixed-member proportional representation" (MMP) government, established in 1993
• Visiting Lake Pukaki and Mt. Cook
• Weaving baskets from flax and learning to surf in Raglan
• Swimming with dolphins, kayaking in mangroves, and soaking up the sun in the Bay of Islands
• Floating down the river of the glow worm filled caves in Waitomo
• Exploring Queenstown and Lake Wakatipu
• Rock Climbing the 800+ brilliant routes of Wharepapa
• Bouldering in Quantum Field, Spittle Hill, and Flock Hill in Castle Hill (featured in Climbing Magazine)