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Pacific Island travellers advised to register details

Suitcase stowaways

Pamela Wade reminds us what to do when an illegal hitch-hiker comes home with us from an overseas trip.

First-class face tips for flying

Planes, trains and cars wreak havoc on your skin. Planes leave your face dry and parched, sun adds wrinkles, humidity means breakouts.

Puking on the pilgrim trail

When the good news about your long-haul flight is that there just happens to be a gastroenterologist aboard, then you know the bad news is going to be pretty bad.

Nepal: Preparing for the hike

For many hikers to Everest Base Camp in Nepal, adding an extra hike to the top of nearby mountain Kala Pattar is out of the question.

Brian Armstrong's first aid travel tips

Brian Armstrong, an Australian filmmaker with a penchant for strange liquors, has travelled to the most isolated and dangerous corners of the world.

Winston Aldworth: Caught in the jetstream of a rogue farter's charter

As a fan of cheese, baked beans, cheese-on-baked-beans on toast, beer and rugby, many people wrongly assume I'm also a fan of farting. Let me be absolutely clear: I'm not.

Success: Pair's in flight brew takes off

Company's drinks aim to combat the physical stresses of air travel

Blindness, coma, death....experts give warning

Health experts say Kiwis travelling to Indonesia should pay close attention to the source of any alcohol they drink, and avoid jugs of pre-made liquor.

Should Air NZ have charged extra to change a sick child's flight?

Minor injury turns fatal

More Kiwis die on foreign soil

Kiwi's lax attitude to getting our travel jabs may be killing us.

Airlines: Caring and sensitive to officious and obstructive

Air New Zealand deals with nearly 4000 people in grief a year, some of whom have shared their tales with the Herald.

More claiming travel insurance

Returning traveller found to have new strain of malaria

An Auckland man has become New Zealand's first reported case of a new and aggressive form of malaria that has jumped the species barrier from monkeys to humans.

Tourism toilet problem being looked at

Freedom tourists who do not dispose of waste properly or poo in public spaces are a real problem, Tourism Minister John Key says.

Biting back: mosquito that can't get malaria

Motion in the ocean

Fancy a cruise lifestyle on the waves, but plagued by motion sickness? Deborah Abrams Kaplan offers some solutions.