Smiles, spinnakers and hangovers prevail in the world's friendliest yacht race, writes Ian Lloyd Neubauer.

Leah McLennan looks at what's big and what's new on the Otago skifields.

Ian Henderson relished the chance to venture beyond the world of safe, scheduled travel. His wife was not so sure...

Paul Abercrombie gets to grips with Venice's watery warrens during a once-in-a-lifetime rowing lesson.

Head over heels for NSW waves, Duncan Gillies feels the fear but does it anyway.

A bird's eye view is your reward when you take to the skies above Waiheke, discovers Helen van Berkel.

Raising your children on a sailing boat has its dangers, but seafaring parents claim the benefits are vast.

Dionne Christian joins tourists on the Breeze for a trip back into Auckland's coastal trading history.

Sarah Lawrence and her teenage son have a wheely good time in Central Otago.

Dionne Christian is cleared for a nervous lift-off on a Rotorua eco-adventure tour.

On visiting a women-only surf and yoga retreat, Elisabeth Easther found everyone on the same wave length.

Scott Kara takes his family to Fiji's Coral Coast where they experience two extremes of island life.

Judy Bailey takes a soul stirring cruise down the Murray River.

Manuel Meyer takes a close look at beautiful fish off the Spanish coast.

Each week, Flight Centre's team of experts answers your travel question

Suzanne Morphet enjoys more than the bear necessities on a wildlife-filled wilderness cruise in British Columbia.

Hayden Donnell hops on a bicycle to explore the newest trails around Queenstown.

Graham Reid finds flavour through goats and a stark desert where the West's latest beauty "must-have" grows.

In the jungle of Borneo, displaced or orphaned orang-utans are given lessons in survival, writes Ben Fogle.

Island time A walk in Atiu jungle feels like scuba-diving, says Jim Eagles.

Kiwi Helen Steemson saw Sri Lanka up close when she joined Habitat for Humanity.

Alex Robertson and award-winning travel photographer Babiche Martens get to grips with a complex and beautiful land.

With help from a local, Graham Reid goes in search of an elusive meal on Niue.

Adventure tourism inherently carries risk, writes Martin Sneddon. But the customer has a right to expect that avoidable risks are eliminated.

With stand-up paddleboarding an emerging global craze, I figure the best place to learn is in Hawaii, where the sport began.

Hundreds of runs offering challenge to skiers of all abilities give Sarah Ivey the experience of a lifetime.

If Niseko is the crown jewel of Japanese skiing, then Rusutsu is one of its most lustrous, and least known, diamond clusters.

Chris Reed escapes the rat race to find splendid isolation on a road trip through Outback Queensland.

Schoolboy Lachie Scott thanks his parents for a holiday that opened his eyes.

For many hikers to Everest Base Camp in Nepal, adding an extra hike to the top of nearby mountain Kala Pattar is out of the question.