Lake Takapō, a region recently crowned New Zealand's sunniest place, has a different side to it. Part of the Aoraki/Mount Cook Mackenzie International Dark Sky Reserve, the whopping 4,300 square ...

One of the best things you can do in the Mackenzie region is simply ... forest track and alpine trails through one of New Zealand’s most scenic regions and makes for an epic alpine adventure.

In 2019, The Dark Sky Project, which is co-owned by Ngai Tahu, one of the largest iwi (tribes) in New Zealand ... tourists like myself to the Mackenzie region for its unpolluted stargazing ...