Introduction to Wellingtonby FROMMER'SNovember 20, 2006 Wellington is, without doubt, my favorite New Zealand city. I've always seen it geographically as a miniature Hong Kong -- there's a beautiful curved harbor surrounded by hillsides dotted with houses and elegant high-rises clustered into a central fist. There is an immediacy and a vibrancy here that you don't get in other New Zealand cities. Once seen as a stuffy, bureaucrat-filled political capital, Wellington has reinvented itself to become New Zealand's entertainment and cultural capital and the fastest-growing weekend destination in the country. (read article)