Last weekend, I visited the Abel Tasman National Park in South Island, New Zealand.
There were tons of cicadas in the forest and I was completely fascinated with them. They make this deafening loud screeching clicking sounds in the bushes and trees.
This is what a cicada looks like –

The male cicadas are the ones that make [...]

I had stumbled onto a website on Muriwai Beach on a very late night. The very next morning,
I had packed my gear and set off searching for it.
Muriwai Beach is a local secret. It’s seldom mentioned in travel books. And you can see why they’ve kept it private -

This place is home to a huge [...]