New Zealand’s Beguiling West Coast
An affair between love and rain
If you come to Aotearoa (the Maori name for New Zealand) and miss out on the West Coast of the South Island, you will have missed New Zealand altogether.
It’s the untamed part of the country packed with fluffy sheep, rugged bays, and birds that can’t fly. Whether you travel by motorcycle, bicycle, campervan, or on foot: you will succumb to the charm of this corner of the country in no time. Once you start gliding up and down its magic shores without hurry and unimpressed by its wetter elements.
The people living out here are headstrong and made of some kind of weatherproof fabric. It rains on many days of the year. And not too little of it. As a result, the West Coast remains stubbornly verdant even during the peak of summer, while the soil is visibly withering away elsewhere in the country.
A good reason to stay clear off the West Coast?
Hell no!
Clearly, the days when not a single cloud tarnishes the West Coast sky are few and far between. But when they’re out, there’s no stopping them. The famous yet deserted Highway №6 snakes around steep rocky headlands offering awe-inspiring views of heaven and ocean melt into one. Before the tarmac suddenly sweeps down to vast plains, fringed by nature in a way only…
