Starting on farmland, the track prepares the uninitiated with shin deep mud before entering Tawarau Forest, which starts off light and airy, with lovely clearings beside the stream below, insects buzzing through the heavily scented air and pongas framing the view to the magnificent limestone faces on the other side of the stream. But soon […]
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