We traveled to New Zealand in January of 2012 on a land tour run by Collette Vacations. It was two weeks in New Zealand, just under two weeks in Australia, and two days in Tasmania. (See Entire Itinerary) We went from the southern end of the south island by bus all the way to Auckland, which is in the northern part of the north island.   There was not a lot of traveling each day by bus, but the drive gave us a chance to really see the New Zealand countryside, which was really beautiful. Being it was their summer we experienced overall good weather and everyone we met was really friendly.  It was a great time.