An otherworldly sunrise at California’s Mono Lake.

One of the most common truisms about NZ is that there are more sheep than people: around 40 million woolly residents, and 4 million humans. After being outnumbered for so many years, it looks like the kiwis have finally cracked.

This weekend, the tiny town of Hokitika, New Zealand, population 4,500, will be flooded by 17,000 foodies, who are flying, driving and bussing in from all over sample the oddest delicacies they can get their mitts on.

Cue the bad “Mile-High Club” jokes. Demonstrating why the commercial passenger jet has never before doubled as a flying concert venue, Jamiroquai played a a set of their white-man funk for a plane full of contest winners on Monday.

You may be many things, Travelistic viewers, but you certainly aren’t predictable.

Stowaway squirrels, Chinese environmentalism, and toxic LA.

The Vice magazine boys just uploaded a few clips from their gonzo travel documentary to Travelistic.

Travel headlines for the weekend of 2/4/07.

Unsurprisingly, Punxsutawney, PA’s rodent-in-residence has predicted an early spring this year. As if the cherry blossoms blooming in Brooklyn and the flowers springing up in the Alps in January weren’t already clear signs.

“Where Have You Been?” is a monthly NYC event for travelers with different slant on the whole business of going elsewhere, and a good story to back it up.