10 BEST PLACES TO VISIT IN NEW ZEALAND | AMERICAN REACTS

[@ToniaElkins]

💩 THIS WAS 1ST UPLOADED ON AUGUST 14TH 2024 FOR MEMBERS ONLY. IT TOOK A MONTH FOR COPYRIGHT ISSUES TO BE CLEARED SO IM HAPPY TO FINALLY BE ABLE TO SHARE THIS PUBLICLY FOR EVERYONE NOW! Welcome Back 💩 Today im reacting to Touropia’s Top 10 places to visit in New Zealand! Y’all KNOW how I am with beautiful scenic areas. 🫠 I wanna gooooo! *Become a Member if you’re interested ☺️ * DISCORD: discord.gg/edUdtSwH WISHLIST: throne.com/toniaelkins

[@Kiwiskirt]

Thanks for liking our country. Enjoyed your video. Cheers from NZ :)

[@ToniaElkins]

@@Kiwiskirt Thank you! I love watching videos about NZ because for one it’s such a gorgeous country but also I love learning about the culture there. 🥰

[@Kiwiskirt]

@@ToniaElkins 💜

[@steelfabric]

I spent 3 weeks driving around the South Island, and it was spectacular. Absolutely amazing scenery. One thing they didn't mention is Baldwin Street in Dunedin, the steepest street in the world. I walked up it and it is a struggle. If you ever do find yourself in this part of the world, I definitely recommend visiting New Zealand. You won't be disappointed.

[@patricknaidu8543]

whatever might be happening in the world.. Kiwis are some of the most friendly people you will ever meet.. am so lucky that I live here

[@it-really-hurts2092]

I love your line about being something you only see in the movies, as us Kiwis consider Middle Earth to be one of the main characters in The LOTR and Hobbit movies ( Hobbiton is a major tourist spot)

[@FelixWalton-z8b]

The needle thing is called The Sky Tower and its Aucklands most iconic building. You can go up there to see the city, and theres a cafe up there. Also you can jump off it while attached to some cables (so its safe), and you can get attached to a harness and walk around it.

[@nedread6700]

The circular building in Napier is actually the Conmanchero Motorcycle clubhouse.

[@Mysterx1440]

Aren't they all in jail now ?😂

[@exutiku]

It is indeed, and they have very cunningly disguised it and named it The National Aquarium of New Zealand to fool everybody, and it looks like their cunning plan has worked lol

[@TomJonesisback]

Don't tell anyone new Zealand is the best place to live in the world much love from new Zealand ♥️

[@ToniaElkins]

@@TomJonesisback You’re probably right about that lol. Just the beauty alone would make anyone happier.

[@leannecoffey8964]

Kiwi here, another marine encounter that I never hear mentioned in videos is feeding the stingrays just north of Gisborne, East Coast, North Island.

[@ToniaElkins]

Oh I’d love that! I’ve pet stingrays and manta rays many times but never fed one.

[@nicholasmaude6906]

8:38 - That round structure is the National Aquarium of New Zealand ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Aquarium_of_New_Zealand ).

[@allanmowz]

The reason some of the places look like they are only in the movies is because they actually come here to make those movies, for that reason. Google a list of famous movies made in New Zealand scenery :)

[@ToniaElkins]

Ive heard that! And no wonder.. it’s a gorgeous country.

[@d.a2500]

No 4 you asked what is this, the place is called Waiwera I was raised there as a child.North of Auckland you go through a lot of beach suburbs on the Northshore Whangaporaoa Penninsula also beachside suburbs travelling north.

[@it-really-hurts2092]

Queenstown is like Aspen. Skiing and beautiful mountains, very popular with the tourists, but very expensive.

[@ToniaElkins]

Oh ok. I’ve never been skiing. I’m not much of a winter girl 😂

[@mattieclan8957]

NZ is very strict with health & safety regulations, so no worries about the kawerau Bridge for bungy jumping😊

[@haydengoodall6767]

White Island?..

[@kwerk2011]

@@haydengoodall6767 Well, not anymore, but it's a fair point.

[@kwerk2011]

Also, it's both a truss and a suspension bridge, doesn't get much more well engineered than that.

[@dubbzz2349]

The fuck. Absolutely wrong

[@reverandbigshow8171]

I grew up in Taupo in the shadow of the Tongariro National Park, It is a beautiful place to spend your childhood. I'm now living in Auckland and feel the need to let you know the people on the Auckland coast do not have the best views ..., I do, The people living on the coast pay a premium to live there but if you're willing to move out a bit you can enjoy living in the city and be completely apart from it at the same time. I live on the top of the range behind the pointy building you noticed ( It's called the Sky Tower ) I get to see the whole of the city out of my lounge and bedroom window. It's a beautiful place to wake up in the morning. I'm a very lucky person. I hope you get to visit NZ sometime. Just make sure you arrive with a few dollars in your pocket, Because if you think life is expensive in the States prepare yourself for a shock. You guys have and always will, have it easy when it comes to the cost of living. I look forward to seeing the review of your first visit here. Take care.

[@eddawson9617]

You seem self aware, maybe be you might know why some 1-2 bedroom apartments in the viaduct are so cheap. My family home is in Grey Lynn but I’ve been living in Sydney forever now and thinking of moving back except the prices put me off however these small apartments downtown are continuously on the market for less than $150.

[@nedread6700]

You need to visit the many awesome bars in Otara and Mangere or vist Hastings when the Blue Bandanna festival is on.

[@exutiku]

Hi Tonia, I live on the shore of lake Taupo between the National Park and Lake Taupo. The round building in Napier is the national aquarium of NZ, the first jump you saw that you thought is a cliff jump is actually the Taupo bungy jump, the Interislander ferry doesn't go anywhere near the Fiordland Sounds, it is the connection between the North and South Island, the conical volcano top you see in the Tongariro National Park is Mt Ngauruhoe, which was Mount Doom in the lord of the rings. A lot of movies are made over here and some like it so much over here that they move here, e.g. James Cameron, The Bay of Islands isn't any more expensive than anywhere else, other than the price of the real estate lol, American author Zane Grey loved the Bay of Islands and owned a small Island and built on it, there are horse trekking outfits all over the place catering to most levels of riding ability, and lastly, the yachts that you see on Lake Wakatipu (Queenstown) are probably either privately owned or yacht club yachts. Another NZ mountain (not in your upload) that was used in a Tom Cruise movie The Last Samurai is Mt Taranaki in the Taranaki region, and lastly, the Kaikoura coast is definitely worth a visit, especially since the uplifting of the seabed as a consequence of the magnitude 7.8 Kekerengu earthquake in November 2016

[@KiwiGlen]

Keep the nz reactions coming

[@dawnezone8491]

Kia ora from Aotearoa NZ ...Nau mai Haere mai - Welcome welcome :D

[@Peter-ny4mu]

It sounds like you would like the north island in summer (which would be your winter). Probably Waikato area.

[@jasonmarshall7572]

Yes Horse treks are a thing i use to own my own horses and many people hire out there horses and would guide you on a trek

[@Shayshay.91]

Ps. This is where they filmed the lion witch and the wardrobe beach scene 5:23

[@gusdrivinginaustralia6168]

New Zealand is better than you think it will be. I went 20 ish years ago. Gotta love our Kiwi neighbours. ❤

[@michaelhohaia1651]

Bungy jumping will fix your back... A garanteed stretch😊

[@ToniaElkins]

@@michaelhohaia1651 Lol too bad it doesn’t actually work that way 😆

[@SheldoFett]

It's pleasantly unusual when people fall in love with the country that you live in. For us locals, it's just normal. It's like when people say "omg, I love your accent", and you're like "yeah, nah, I speak normal as bro, straight up, chur"

[@ToniaElkins]

@@SheldoFett I get that! People love hating on Americans and America so I love when people find us friendly and enjoy my country. 😊

[@rollyrolly7729]

I'm lucky to have been born in nz, a country regarded by many as the most beautiful country in the world. Don't ever believe you won't be able to afford to come here. You could blow nz 20k in a month touring here which sound a lot but that's a lot less in American dollars. I'm at present trying to save $20k nz dollars to come to the US. It's been taking a while but I will get there eventually

[@mattieclan8957]

I did horse riding in Hanmer Springs. It should be all over NZ.

[@cadifan]

That's Auckland's Sky Tower and I watched it get built from my job a couple of blocks away. It has a revolving restaurant and also a glass floor and at ground level is a massive casino.

[@ToniaElkins]

@@cadifan Oh I didn’t know about the casino. Cool. I’m not gambler but my husband likes to do that sometimes lol

[@trudimclaren4301]

Bay of Islands is still affordable, but Nelson is similar and in my opinion, better. Been to all of these places but my favourites are Wellington (our capital city), Nelson, The Catlins and Fiordland (that was Milford Sound - I've been there 6 times now ❤). Horse Treks are very common in NZ and are available to take in most places in NZ. 😊

[@cjiwo]

Christchurch NZ has the longest Zip line in the country

[@nedread6700]

Wow you must be really proud

[@yoda68zac11]

I just moved from Christchurch to near Kaikoura. I work on a farm that has tourist accommodation also for an American chap who's enjoying how much he can buy with his American dollars lol. 1500 acres of prime historically significant land with snow covered mountains and the ocean both in same view from my window lol. I hope to do a whale watch tour here at some point. A few years ago I took my nephew swimming with dolphins in Akaroa. Very good professional tour operators there and we lucked out. Only got in the water once and must have been 50 dolphins kept zooming around us for at least 20 minutes. It was epic. Watching them hoooon around and dart about underwater was so cool. Haere mai (a traditional invitation and welcome)

[@firebrand2619]

I’ve been to New Zealand a few times. I have family in Nelson. if your time short when visiting New Zealand recommend the South Island, it’s the best

[@ToniaElkins]

@@firebrand2619 Ok cool! I’d definitely want recommendations on where to go if I went there. I don’t know as much about NZ as I do Australia yet lol. But I’m getting there 😁

[@joyannwesson]

New Zealand is so beautiful. 🥰

[@ToniaElkins]

@@joyannwesson Right?! It’s incredible!

[@simonrobinson4102]

I live in Queenstown. Sadly you cannot rent those boats. And i must say, this video is very old, and Queenstown is not the same. And yes you can go horseback riding!

[@dionheremaia5602]

Tonia I like your reactions to New Zealand 🇳🇿 and hope you get the chance to visit. I'm from this country being indigenous Maori.

[@exutiku]

Hi again Tonia, all of the top 10 places you have in your top 10 are destinations that are targeted at tourists, there are many many walks and places that are as, and in many instances, much more beautiful with the added bonus that you may be the only one there, along with the bonus that you do not need to take a firearm, or bear spray, or have to worry about Puma (Cougar), or snakes or spiders or whatever … kzbin.info/www/bejne/rH_ZgqqDgtGrmNk

[@urizen7613]

Nelson, Wellington and Christchurch deserved at least mentions.

[@ToniaElkins]

@@urizen7613 Maybe another video will mention those 😊

[@urizen7613]

@@ToniaElkins There are plenty of KZbin videos :-) Or maybe you'll miraculously become wealthy some day!

[@trudimclaren4301]

Nelson and Wellington are pretty much my favourite places in NZ (and I live in Dunedin). I honestly don't think it's possible to do a top 10 of NZ - we'll always disagree 😂

[@nicholasmaude6906]

7:00 - I don't think it's legal to swim with Dolphins in New Zealand waters due to the Marine Mammals Protection Act.

[@monster10ify]

Hi firstly it is THE North Island and THE South Island and secondly please can you explain to me why people in the USA incorrectly use the transitive “lay” instead of the intransitive “lie”. Has that become a common mistake there? I hear it on US voiced ads here and it makes my teeth hurt. “Lay means "to place something down flat," while lie means "to be in a flat position on a surface." The key difference is that lay is transitive and requires an object to act upon, and lie is intransitive, describing something moving on its own or already in position.”

[@Mysterx1440]

Jeez mate, you really need to get laid

[@3GingerCats]

The Coromandel (my back yard) should be number ONE. once you have grown up there you have no desire to go anywhere else! I wouldn't call Thames a city, it's not big enough to be classed as a City. And because of the Native bush which is Illegal to cut down, Thames can't expand up into the hills, so can never be a city (it can expand out past Kopu along SH25, but that's about it. But Hot water beach (where there was once a great Camping ground until some Super Wealthy A hole brought the land for the sole purpose of refusing future generations from enjoying it. It's a great place, Just Like Hahei further up the road. (my one of my favourite places to camp at the beach when I was a kid... Next to the camp at Otautu bay. that is the best spot! and for the best little pub (bar) on the Peninsula... well that award goes to the Coroglen Tavern! The needle thing, in Auckland... well that would be the Sky Tower. You can Bungy jump from the damn thing it that's your idea of fun! and It get lit up with alsorts of lights for all sorts of occasions, the most recent was the Rock 2000, a radio station playing the top 2000 songs voted by listeners... It read "Foo Fighters Everlong #1" up the side of it using a big projector.

[@vinniebanks2206]

Aus and NZ are not to be looked at as the same. two totally different countries

[@Shenzenxo]

I think she is talking about how similar the cities are though

[@peterteohaere4986]

Lived in Australia almost half my life New Zealand is where you go if you want a slower pace without the nasty snakes and crocks and all the poisonous insects that Australia has and New Zealand can fit into the state of nsw .New Zealand is more expensive to live and might get licked to death by a sheep.

[@michaelnolan6951]

Woohoo! I had not previously seen this video, and it was a pretty good intro ad for NZ. I grew up in Christchurch, the largest city on the South Island. I have holidayed with my parents in Kaikoura, where the ocean gets very deep straight off the beach, and marine mammals cruise very close to the shore. Also as a kid I attended some YMCA camps at Akaroa harbour on Banks Peninsula. The coolest thing about them was hanging out with Hector's Dolphins, the worlds smallest dolphin. These guys would often come visit the kids when we came down to the beach and swam out to a raft tethered just off shore. They would very carefully give kids straight line rides clinging to their dorsal fins. You can also do this from tourist boats based in Akaroa township. You often meet penguins around Bank's Peninsula. The vey tall needle topped building in Auckland is the Sky Tower, until 2022 the tallest freestanding building in the Southern Hemisphere. It was built as a casino and events hosting site, but it has a revolving restaurant and many TV and radio broadcasts are made from there. You can also bungee jump off the roof! (As I'm sure you know, bungee jumping was invented on Vanuatu but commercialised by New Zealander AJ Hackett in the 1980s. (Incidentally I think they person you thought was cliff diving at the start of the video was actually bungee jumping at one of AJ Hackett's purpose built sites around Queenstown. They weigh you and measure the cords so your head gets soaked in the river beneath you) Napier has so much Art Deco architecture because it was basically flattened by an earthquake in 1931 and almost entirely rebuilt in (then) modern and fashionable Art Deco style. There is an annual cosplay event in the summer, where people dress in 1930s costumes and drive classic cars. Jet boating is another NZ invention (and very fun!) and down the Kawarau river (as shown here) you are jet propelled in only a few cm (a couple of inches) water depth and right up to the cliffs on either side. Yes, you can hire horses for trekking (usually by the day.) Fiordland really is one of the 7 Wonders of the World. NZ in general is spectacularly photographic, and driving 15 minutes in any direction will provide entirely different jaw dropping views. Cody always seems super smug when he gets your lap to himself and not at all interested in the opinions of anyone else!

[@ToniaElkins]

@@michaelnolan6951 Lol yes Cody gets VERY excited when I do videos. He knows what I’m doing when I set up and runs up there 🤣 NZ sounds like literally the best place on earth. Sounds like your childhood was magical. What an amazing place to grow up. I want to go to NZ so bad! Such a cool place! ❤️

[@kingcountrykiwi7429]

Sadly Dubai (I think), now has beaten Sky Tower with the tallest building in southern Hemisphere only a few years ago.

[@paulaz5009]

​@@kingcountrykiwi7429Dubai is in the northern hemisphere.

[@kingcountrykiwi7429]

@@paulaz5009 I didn’t put much thought into that lol. “Autograph Tower, Jarkata”

[@themarekch]

G'day from Australia 🇦🇺. I haven't been to NZ yet. It's on the list. Nice cat 🐈

[@ToniaElkins]

@@themarekch Thanks! Yeah NZ & Australia are at the top of my travel list. ❤️

[@themarekch]

@@ToniaElkins so much to do in Australia. Depending on what your into and what weather you like. It's a year round adventure.

[@fredleblanc5714]

New Zealander here. Avoid Auckland. It's a city with no soul or personality. South Island is spectacular and you can drive 30 minutes and see an entirely new landscape.

[@wholiddleolme476]

The circular building is a stranded UFO, just like the one on top the cement tower in Seatle, USA 😁 Gladestone is named after some old English lord, just as the mid-north town here in my state. Everything is super expensive in NZ, I looked at going for a holiday there about 15 years ago and just to hire a campervan for 21 days was over $5,000 AU and that didn't include food or air-fairs. Too my knowledge the tall tower in Auckland is one of the tallest structures in the Southern Hemisphere, I know tourists can go up it for sight-seeing, but I personally think it's just another of those Masonic Phallic Symbols 🤣 I see pretty red sunsets and sunrises all the time in the spring and summer, even here in Adelaide, it's like the Icehouse song 'Great Southern Land'. That No1 was beautiful, try to imagine what the Antartica looked like before it became a frozen wasteland, because there are forests and frozen lakes buried under all that ice, indeed there are forest remains off the southern coast of Australia that are rumored to stretch all the way to Antartica.

[@setchmo1957]

Problem with australia is theres too many australians there

[@ToniaElkins]

@@setchmo1957 Lmao. Well that would be a nice change for me. I deal with too many Americans 😂

[@lakelady57]

Follow a set of vlogs by Glen (Irish) and Mado (German) when they spent 10 months working and travelling through NZ. They show you the local places and people and do some of the spectacular scenery. That will give you a real idea of what you will see and experience. It is really worth a watch if interested in NZ.

[@paulmckee8142]

All of the so called top 10 places to visit in any country in the world is very controversial. Every person has their own ideas of what is a great place is for them. I sure even you have places in the states that don’t make a list. Personally I like visiting out of the way places in other countries and visit little towns rather than the touristy places.

[@Andrew-tf8jt]

You can do big horseback tours if you want.

[@ToniaElkins]

That would be fun! I haven’t been since I was a kid.

[@wholiddleolme476]

Hey there's a concept!!! Do a Vlog drunk 😁🤣🤪😵‍💫 I'll watch the rest of this one a bit later.

[@marklane58]

TE! Aotearoa is so beautiful to look at. I've never been, tho it's just across the ditch (dutch). Pros - not far to drive anywhere, spectacular scenery, friendly people, lots of indigenous culture. Cons - it's cold (better in summer of course), earth quakes, and I've heard that Rotorua stinks of rotten eggs due to the 'pretty' hydrogen sulphide plumes. Visiting Australia: Pros - spectacular scenery, much warmer in parts, lots of big things, diverse culture and food, unique wildlife, great beaches for swimming, great weather, friendlier people. Cons - some places are almost too far to drive to, the other kind of unique wildlife, occasional bad weather events. $1 US gets you about $1.50 AU or NZ. So escape your winter and come on down for some southern sunshine! Thanks for the show. 🌅😎 PS: I think horse riding might be worse for your back than bungee jumping.

[@ToniaElkins]

@@marklane58 Haha I think if I got a slow moving horse on a little trail I’d be ok. I loved riding them as a kid. NZ and Australia are both very beautiful countries and I’d be lucky to be able to visit either one really. I have family who has been all over the world but have still never been to NZ or Australia cuz they’re so far lol.

[@nicholasmaude6906]

Cheesy music.

[@Andrew-tf8jt]

Have a look at New Zealand 100% pure they are short but there's a nice four minite hidef version that has a lot of nice shots in it.

[@Andrew-tf8jt]

🤗from🇳🇿

[@Andrew-tf8jt]

Also geography now if you haven't seen it