The Perfect 10
Robb Report writes for readers who can travel anywhere in the world, with anyone they choose. For The Perfect 10, its editors chose ten journeys from dozens put forward by leading travel consultants around the world.
The January 2009 edition, Flight Plans, included Jean-Michel Jefferson's New Zealand journey by helicopter: the country's wilderness reached from the air, with landings where no road goes. It remains the way we open up Fiordland, South Westland and the high country today.
Robb Report, 2018: Māori New Zealand
In October 2018, Robb Report Malaysia wrote about Ahipara's Māori cultural journeys, the dimension of New Zealand travel that most visitors don't know exists.
New Zealand's Māori culture is neither a performance nor a museum exhibit. It is a living tradition, with communities, protocols, and relationships that take years to build. The access Ahipara has developed — to marae, to elders, to experiences that are not available to the general public — is the result of two decades of respectful engagement with those communities.
“Our aim is to have an in-depth understanding of our client, allied to a sensitivity of the country, to put together an experience that is so authentic that it can sometimes be transformational.”
Jean-Michel Jefferson, quoted in Robb Report, 2018
Ready to experience it yourself?
The helicopter days and Māori cultural experiences Robb Report wrote about are built on relationships we have kept for two decades. Let's talk about what they could mean for your journey.