Adventure NZ

Return to Ngaroma
Return to Ngaroma
Wednesday, 17 March 2021
Now very much a farming district south-east of Te Awamutu, Ngaroma was once a thriving timber town.
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It's a small world
Wednesday, 17 March 2021
Getting together with a bunch of like-minded individuals in New Zealand’s great outdoors is what Overlanding is all about… as 4x4Explorer Richard Soult discovered on a recent trip ‘up the M
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Manawatu 4WD Club Charity Fundraising Safari 2021
Manawatu 4WD Club Charity Fundraising Safari 2021
Wednesday, 17 February 2021
Rain affected play on this year’s Manawatu 4WD Club charity Safari in the remote Waitotora Valley in late January.
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The Motu Safari 2021
The Motu Safari 2021
Wednesday, 17 February 2021
The Motu Safari was back on the calendar this summer with the same mix of stunning East Coast tracks and trails but a new simplified three-day format.
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Marble hill on my mind
Marble hill on my mind
Wednesday, 17 February 2021
He’s passed by literally hundreds of times over the years but it was only recently that 4x4Explorer Richard Soult decided to stop and spend some quality time around Marble Hill on the Lewis Pas
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Close to Home – Richard & Gav’s excellent adventure
Sunday, 17 January 2021
With a week before everyone else arrived, Richard Soult was able to show Aucklander Gavin some of Central Otago’s more remote tracks and trails.
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Join the (4x4) club
Sunday, 17 January 2021
4WD club membership offers many advantages, as NZ4WD magazine publisher Cathy Parker can attest.
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Remembering the ‘Forgotten World’
Sunday, 17 January 2021
Remote it definitely is, but as Weekend Drive correspondent David Coxon says, if you make the effort to drive there, the Republic of Whangamomona has a lot to offer.
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Summer escape in the High Country
Sunday, 17 January 2021
Before heading to Siberia last year to drive the BAM Railway support road (see story NZ4WD Nov 2020) Bay of Plenty retirees Martin and Jeanette Knudsen ‘limbered up’ with a ‘Summer Escape’
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How to get your lady to enjoy the 4WD?
Monday, 14 December 2020
Buy her some proper gumboots, show her how the truck works, go somewhere pretty, and read on!
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A Series 1 on the Matariki Safari
Thursday, 19 November 2020
Last year the Plimmer family from Hamilton took their 1956 Land Rover Series 1 on the Matariki Forestry Charity fund-raising Safari hosted by the Whangamata 4WD Club – and this year they invited me
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A trip up the Rakaia
Thursday, 19 November 2020
Now both back based in Christchurch, 4x4Explorer Richard Soult and 5GoOverland mate Aaron Rich celebrated with a recent trip to the headwaters of the mighty Rakaia River – and beyond.
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Daytripper
Thursday, 29 October 2020
Difficult to describe a road-trip in a new Mazda CX-30 with SkyActiv X technology in the immortal lyrics of John, Paul, George and Ringo, but then there were things “It took me so long, to find
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The Redwoods Express
Thursday, 29 October 2020
 If you’re a keen mountain biker like NZ4WD magazine Editor Ross MacKay, all roads in the upper-middle part of the North Island lead to Rotorua.  For his latest trip there he had the use of a Su
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Happy Tauranga trails in a Honda
Thursday, 29 October 2020
With over 33,000 Honda CR-Vs registered since the model’s first debut in 1997, there’s no denying the popularity of this medium-sized SUV and for 2021, the high riding Honda has seen some radica
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Let’s go camping this summer
Wednesday, 21 October 2020
Camping and 4WDs go together like summer and sun block. Or summer and late, balmy nights swapping stories around a campfire.
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Middle Earth traverse
Wednesday, 21 October 2020
With the Covid-19 coronavirus putting paid to a long-planned 4x4 trip to the South Island, Taupo pair Paula Burnett and Cameron Raupi reset their sights a little closer to home...
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Wet feet on the West Coast
Wednesday, 16 September 2020
Scott Fellers brings his littlest co-driver to explore the track into Montgomerie Hut.
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Leatham Valley and Reefton catch-up weekend
Tuesday, 18 August 2020
As many of you may be aware, we’re wintering in Marahau, close to the Abel Tasman National Park.
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Overland Camping Options
Tuesday, 21 July 2020
A key part of any Overlanding trip is camping out. Here we look at some of the overnight options.
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A winch weekend on the West Coast
Tuesday, 21 July 2020
With no Winch Challenge events to look forward to thanks to COVID-19 members of the Nelson 4WD Club put their rigs to good use on a recent trip to the West Coast.
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The Great Otago Gold Rush's Overlanding Legacy
Tuesday, 21 July 2020
Evidence of the role gold played in ‘seeding’ a fledgling New Zealand from the 1800s is still very much there to be discovered in Central Otago, one of 4x4Explorer main man Richard Soult’s f
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Ryan's Ranger
Tuesday, 21 July 2020
Central Otago sparkie Ryan Brown owns what could well be the perfect Ford Ranger for work AND play. If you want he can sort you out with one just like it, too. Richard Soult has the story.
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Making the grade
Thursday, 18 June 2020
We’ve all either seen, heard or read about the Grades given to 4WD tracks here in NZ.
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First taste of freedom Central Otago
Wednesday, 17 June 2020
Post-Lockdown, NZ4WD contributor Richard Soult was hanging out to get out in the NZExplorer.co.nz Toyota Prado.
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