I actually enjoy going to zoos, it is sometimes the only access some people will ever have with animals outside of domesticated animals. However, I do only attend professionally run, high standards where animals welfare is number 1 🙂

I loved Auckland when we visited it years ago 🙂

Thanks Holly, yes anything involving nature and wildlife makes me happy so we always look to add those experiences into our trips and weekends when we can.

Thanks Nancy, I love to take photos and it's great to hear that you enjoyed them

Hi Larissa, the South Island is so beautiful and would definitely be my recommendation to any first time travellers to the country. The north island also has many attractions, safe sandy swimming beaches and rugged surf, parklands, forest and places of historic and cultural significance but it also has bigger cities and is more commercial in many places. Auckland is at least a part of our itinerary when we go back because we have family there otherwise I would find it hard to pass up the south island myself.

Thanks Jasmine, I hope you enjoy NZ as a destination, we used to live there so it's been great to see the zoo change and evolve over the years to have a bigger conservation and animal welfare focus.