Cromwell/Bannockburn Area   Bannockburn, Bendigo Cromwell, Lowburn, Queensberry, Ripponvale, Tarras Hot, dry climes cultivate golden fruits and award winning wines below tawny hills, where fine-wool Merino sheep graze.  Wildflowers line roadsides, and powerful rivers cut awesome gorges to a lake, and its expanding town.  ...more

Alexandra/Clyde Area       Alexandra, Clyde, Earnscleugh, Fruitlands Autumn glows red and amber along the banks of rivers that flow to a heart founded on gold, and shaped by enterprise.  Alexandra is situated at the conjunction of two rivers, the Manuherikia and the mighty Clutha.  A little further up the Clutha is the historic gold mining township of Clyde and the immense Clyde hydro dam.  ...more

Roxburgh Area       Coal Creek, Ettrick, Millers Flat, Lake Roxburgh Village, Roxburgh, Shingle Creek Scorched morning rays herald a patchwork of fruit orchards alongside farms that creep toward tussock-clad hills.  Magnificent mountain ranges hold vigil over the mighty Clutha river and its offshoots, safeguarding secrets of times long since past.  ...more

Manuherikia Area       Becks,Chatto Creek, Lauder, Moa Creek, Omakau, Ophir, Poolburn, St Bathans Manuherikia Valley rolls gently across green and gold highlands to far away horizons filled with mountains towering blue, and snow-dusted, into never-ending skies.  Fluffy white clouds seem within reach above huge rocky outcrops and grazing farm stock while tiny pioneer settlements lay nestled and hidden within the grandeur.  ...more

Maniototo Area       Gimmerburn, Kyeburn, Kokonga, Naseby, Oturehua, Patearoa, Paerau, Ranfurly, Wedderburn, Waipiata Natural light reflects off the velvet folds of magnificent mountain ranges onto pastoral valleys, rocky tors and the awesome sprawling Maniototo Plain.  Throughout this vast landscape, remnants of a prosperous gold mining past lie in the scarred hillsides, occasional mud-brick buildings, old stone fences and lonely cemeteries.  It is a timeless land where the Taieri River meanders lazily, and empty roads stretch by irrigated farmlands to historic, sleepy towns.  ...more