The perfect week in Egmont National Park

September 2016

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September 2016

For the best views of Mt Taranaki, climb to the tarn on the Pouakai Range. Photo: Shaun Barnett/Black Robin Photography
New Zealand’s second oldest national park is dominated by the perfect cone of Mt Taranaki, but there’s a lot more to this park than its namesake mountain In the 1830s, when naval surgeon William Barrett Marshall first saw Mt Egmont/Taranaki ‘snow-capped and veiled in mist’ he was moved to write: ‘A more striking or magnificent […]
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