Aotearoa, the last large landmass on earth to be settled, where Māori voyaging canoes reached the islands centuries before the first Europeans and the Treaty of Waitangi bound two peoples in eighteen forty. Read Auckland at your own pace, the harbour city built across a field of volcanoes on the isthmus of Tāmaki Makaurau, from the restored Victorian warehouses of Britomart to the crater of a sacred maunga; wander Wellington, the compact capital wrapped around its harbour, from the parliament and the old shoreline of Lambton Quay to the creative sprawl of Cuba Street; and walk Christchurch, the garden city on the Canterbury plains that rebuilt itself from the rubble of a great earthquake, along the willow-lined Avon and through a cathedral square remade. Two main islands at the bottom of the Pacific, their story written in carved meeting houses, colonial stone and the green of the bush, and all of it better on your own clock.