Shouldn’t the first ‘firsts’ be commemorated in the landscape too? Photo: Tania Rae

There’s something missing from the Great Walks

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Aotearoa’s Great Walks provide quintessentially diverse perspectives of the world. But can the same be said of the evening hut talks? By Tania Rae

To get to the Routeburn Track, we’d have to pass a sleeping giant: Matau, kidnapper and en-trapper of beautiful Māori maiden Manata, and whose scorched-yet-still-beating heart is considered by Ngāi Tahu to be responsible for the extraordinary rise and fall of the waters within Whakatipu Waimāori / Lake Wakatipu. Journeying from Tāhuna-Queenstown, our waka (shuttle) […]
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