New Zealand Outdoors Drawcard for International Students

A dry year has turned the Roding River, that winds through the valley, into a quiet hush but it’s still a good entree to the New Zealand landscape for a group of global students.

They’ve left behind regular lives elsewhere in the world and have headed to the New Zealand campus of American-based National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS).

The school provides an education some of the students say they’d never get from a regular classroom.

Their accommodation before heading into the wilderness is a small village of tents on a grassy flat above the river in Aniseed Valley, named for the spice which once grew there.

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