The Amateur Traveler talks to Beth Whitman of Wanderlust and Lipstick about her recent Papua New Guinea. Beth was attracted to this remote country that produced more languages than any other country ...

This is the  Martha open pit gold mine in Waihi New Zealand. To give you a sense of scale, when the mining is finished it will be flooded to form a 634 ...

I was watching the most recent Narnia movie this weekend (Prince Capsian) as the Pevensie children stepped off a train platform in London and appeared to come out of a cave in ...

This is a view of the shipping channel near Mt Maunganui, New Zealand taken from the Mt Mauao Reserve which is a hill at the mouth of the harbor. Climbing the hill ...

This video shows the Spaceship RV that I used to travel around New Zealand. A Spaceship is a converted minivan that has been modified to sleep, cook and travel.

This month’s travel wallpaper comes from Cathedral Cove on the Coromandel Peninsula of New Zealand’s North Island. Regular width (1600 x 1200) / without calendar Widescreen (1920 × 1200) / without calendar ...

See the tiny dump truck in the lower right of this picture. That dump truck has tires that are 8 feet (2.5 meters) tall. You are looking at the Martha open pit ...

Te Puia in Rotorua is an area where you can see some of the geothermal activity in the Rotorua area as well as Maori cultural presentations. This Maori “warrrior” is trying to ...

This building in Rotorua, New Zealand was built as a bath house where one could “take the cure”. Now the building is the Rotorua Museum. It was for many years both a ...

Chris, the Amateur Traveler himself, talks about a recent trip to New Zealand’s North Island where he went to the Waitangi Treaty Grounds and took a dolphin watching cruise up by the ...