Cruising: Relaxation 101
Tropical beaches, fine dining, cooking and dance lessons – Lynley Bilby finds her every whim is catered for on a Pacific island cruise.
Tropical beaches, fine dining, cooking and dance lessons – Lynley Bilby finds her every whim is catered for on a Pacific island cruise.
Nicky Park stays at a beachside hotel near the New Caledonia capital.
Good food, waterfalls and gorgeous beaches are great reasons to visit Vanuatu, writes Megan Singleton.
The tourist mecca's restaurants are fast becoming a culinary force with their focus on fresh, local ingredients and indigenous dishes, discovers Delaney Mes.
The west coast of Hawaii's Big Island is home to magnificent marlin, titanic tuna and merry mantas, writes Paul Davies.
A terrifying mule ride delivers Judy Bailey safely into Kalaupapa, a park with a dark past, now a place of saintly seclusion.
Polynesia's last unspoiled outpost is gearing up for a tourism influx, writes Paul Rush.
Foreign Minister Murray McCully has taken Shane Jones, David Shearer and Winston Peters with him for his trip to the Cook Islands, where he is holding talks.
Liz Light checks out the delights of Noumea and finds plenty to catch the eye in the lush capital of French territory New Caledonia.
Paul Rush samples the simple pleasures of Robert Louis Stevenson's Samoa.
As the explorer noted, the islands of Tonga are truly the 'Friendly Isles'. Jane Jeffries is captivated on her visit.
To the people of Beqa Island sharks are friends. Nicholas Jones tested that trust.
Paul Davies stays at a full-service lifestyle hotel close to Waikiki Beach.
Go local when it comes to food, Nicholas Jones discovers at a cooking school in Fiji.
Paul Rush discovers the enigmatic beauty and brilliance of black pearls in the waters of Fiji.pacific
Whale watching in Tonga goes extreme when Jane Jeffries hops in with the cetaceans.
Fijian nationals will be eligible to register for a residency ballot under the Pacific Access Category for the first time since the military coup in 2006.
Kim Palsenbarg revisits a past hobby and is entranced to find the world beneath the waves as welcoming as ever.
Laura Hutchins cherishes the easy-going pace of Cook Island life because she knows when she's home it'll be what she misses the most.
Further New Zealand aid has arrived in Vanuatu to help in the aftermath of Cyclone Pam.
All his courage gathered, Nicholas Jones ventures underwater for an eye-opening scuba dive.
A week on from Cyclone Pam some sense of normality has returned - at least in the capital, Port Vila.
A Red Cross leader labelled Polyfest 'cold and mean-spirited' after it initially refused to let the charity collect at the event for Pacific victims of Cyclone Pam.
It was a tale of two villages. In one, rice, food and water provided by aid agencies, in another, nothing at all.