For the fourth consecutive year New Zealand has been voted top dog at this year's Telegraph Travel Awards in the UK, winning out as the world's best destination and proving NZ has truly won the hearts of Brits.

Photo: Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC.

From the truly unique experiences on offer, to the breathtaking scenery and being snake free, New Zealand is the whole package.

Apart from paradise for powder hounds, truly unique skiing experience, seriously, seriously photogenic, just like the movies, as fresh as it gets, jaw dropping Milford Sound and snake free, there are many other reasons the Brits like us.

While Air NZ makes third as best long haul airline, our strong ties with Britain, our really old trees and the magnificent Maori culture rate highly.

Add to that: scenery, geysers, volcanoes, wine with a view, being the home of bungy, and it looks just like middle earth. To top of it: NZ looks great from space.

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