The Southern Way is the name Tourism New Zealand has given to the network of routes linking the south of the South Island into one explorable loop. From Oamaru and Dunedin on the east coast, down to the Catlins and Stewart Island, through Murihiku Southland and into Fiordland before the icing on the cake of Queenstown, Wānaka and Central Otago (or at least that’s how we’d frame it).

Most visitors drive it over a week to ten days, taking in Milford Sound, the Catlins coastline and the albatross colonies of the Otago Peninsula along the way. It’s a genuinely remarkable route. The renewed direct flights between Dunedin and Australia have made the whole loop considerably easier to access. Time depending, some visitors fly into Dunedin and out of Queenstown completely ‘one half’ of the loop in a visit. Those with more time go ‘all

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