Regardless of where you stand – Team Sunrise or Team Sunset – you’ll catch some epic ones on a small group adventure with Intrepid. I reckon those who know first light, know the real loveliness of the world. The unassuming beauties, raw and full of heart. Sunrises are the quiet introverts of sun events. They are caught in the hours when the world is quiet, heavy with sleep. Sunrises are freedom, opportunity, anticipation, solitude. They (quite literally) fill the world with light. ![]() Filled with the hope of a day yet unknown. Sunrises aren’t always spectacular, they don’t always drag autumnal warmth out of bleak darkness, they don’t always flood landscapes with hot beauty. RELATED: HERE COMES THE SUN: YOUR GUIDE TO JAPAN’S BEST (SECRET) SUNRISE SPOTS If you’ve stayed up all night, fought the terrors of 3am, danced pre-dawn and stumbled headlong into another day – then remember this moment friend, hold it in your heart. If you manage to haul yourself out of bed in the dark and fumble for whatever shred of clothing you left on the floor the night before, if you manage to take your puffy eyes and scary hair out into the world to catch a glimpse of first light, then respect, dude, the sunrise is yours. Say what you will, sunrises are undeniably the underdog of the golden hour. SUBSCRIBE TO INTREPID’S NEWSLETTER FOR TRAVEL TIPS, COMPETITIONS, GIVEAWAYS & MORE On sunrise… Sunsets are ordinary, they are passé, they are irrefutably common. They are the fodder of pseudo spiritual yoga bloggers and Instagram addicts, add a dolphin and you have yourself a classic hippy wall hanging. They are Jim Morrison singing reprieves of ‘come on Buick light my fire’ (ok ok ok he vetoed this before it was aired, but can you imagine?!). You know what? Give us gappy teeth and crooked noses and eyes too big any day, man. The typical blonde girl-next-door of sun events. Hot orange and pink and yellow, velvet and rich and lovely. Go find a hill, a rooftop, a beach, and become immersed in its fiery splendour. ![]() Cook dinner as last light drips off you through an innocuous window. Walk out of your office and bask in its immediate glory. This page shows the sunrise and sunset times in New Zealand, including beautiful sunrise or sunset photos, local current time, timezone, longitude, latitude and live map. RELATED: 6 SUNSET VIEWING SPOTS IN VIETNAMīut, you know what else sunsets are? Predictable. They welcome darkness and wet one’s lips with the first taste of the night. They are peaceful, they allow one to let go, to bid farewell. They paint the sky and celebrate the pain/greatness/melancholy of another day melting away. Sunsets are glorious, they make endearing brushstrokes of threatening clouds, turn limp branches into glowing monuments, convert cities of stone and cement into landscapes of gold.
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