Sun-drenched vines, salty breezes and warm, welcoming wines — a Waiheke vineyard tour on Waiheke Island offers a blissfully relaxed, almost magical escape.

The Atlas Mountains stretch some 1,500 miles across northwest Africa — sunlit ridges, hidden canyons and weathered Berber villages where families tend terraced fields, churn butter and bake bread, all just about an hour from Marrakesh.