Human Interest

Sometimes you just have to admit the Kiwis do it better. Here are 10 areas where New Zealand towers over Australia as a tourist destination.

Via Peter Mellow

If people were asked to typify aspects of Australian culture, barefoot would be in there.

It's been called one of the 'weirdest', 'perplexing', 'odd', 'unexplainable' Australian cultural habits. There isn't a shoe shortage in Australia, and it doesn't take much effort to put on a pair of shoes. So do Australians really love their land so much they don't need any layers between it and their feet? And could there actually be some unexpected health benefits to freeing ourselves of the tyranny of our shoes?

Video by Kirsty B Carter

Via Peter Mellow

Via Peter Mellow

Although New Zealand's Pink and White Terraces were destroyed in a volcanic eruption in 1886, travellers can still explore this bubbling, boiling landscape today.

Via Peter Mellow