Volcanoes, open landscapes, pools of startling colour, lava formations like statues, craters, lakes, delightful copses of beech forest and three comfortable huts. So, what’s not to like on the…
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Lake Waikaremoana is set amidst the largest area of native forest in the North Island, right in the heart of Te Urewera, the ancestral home of Ngai Tuhoe. Te…
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In 2017, the Whanganui became the first river in the world to be granted legal personhood. The legal entity, known as Te Awa Tupua, recognises the river as an…
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Having tramped lengths of the Abel Tasman Coast Track over four visits, and camped in eight of the park’s 18 DOC campgrounds, I’ve concluded that those seeking solitude may…
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With seven hours of walking behind me, I reached the day’s low point at Boot Pole Corner – a self-explanatory landmark on an otherwise nondescript curve on the Heaphy…
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The rainfall of no name A hanging garden of ferns and roots and air shows a fallen master once stood here, With beech of red and silver, Nothofagus is the...
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It’s hard to beat the Routeburn on a good day. There is a world of rainforest green – mosses, lichens and orchids. Kaka and kea inhabit these parts. Stunning…
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At just over 53km in length, the world-famous Milford Track is liberally endowed with some of the most spectacular natural sights of any track in New Zealand and, indeed,…
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Unlike all other South Island Great Walks, the Kepler Track forms a neat circuit, where you can begin and end at the same place. Encompassing two of Fiordland’s larger…
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For a country with tens of thousands of kilometres of coastline, it’s somewhat surprising we have so few multi-day tramps along shorelines. Only two other Great Walk feature coastal…
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