Wandering Wonderer
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Walking from the top of New Zealand to the bottom.
This is my walk from Cape Reinga to the Bluff in New Zealand. It's a journey that will take me the best part of a year and over 2,000 miles. The picture to the left is from the Te Araroa website and is the proposed route I intend to take. There are far too many places to the left and right of that path that I want to wander in, so I imagine I'll be taking a few detours! After a walk round Cape Reinga it's onto the 90 Mile Beach to get my heels aching, but it'll be a fantastic few nights on the beach I hope!
Places I want to go to that aren't on my pre-designed trail are: Taranaki, Bay of Plenty, Coromandel Forest and The Great Barrier Island.
New Zealand has some of the most beautiful walks in the world, including the Milford Track, often referred to as 'The Finest Walk in the World'. A huge range of landscapes and climates stretching from sub-tropical forests, volcanic platforms, moor and heathland to alpine-style mountains and fjord-lands.
Hiking is called Tramping in New Zealand and it's one of their oldest and fondest forms of fun, they do it with gusto too! All along the length and breadth of the country are tramping huts, set within a few hours to a day's walk from each other. I found out you can get an annual pass to stay in these huts for the equivalent of £40 and they can be used in about 75% of all huts, and about 90% of the one's I'd want to use. Plus they have free camping laws, meaning that so long as you're not on private land, you can put up a tent anywhere that's at least 100m from the road.
They have no scary animals at all, in fact, the only mammals are rabbits and the occasional deer and pig. Oh, and whales and sea-lions. Everything else are birds and non-poisonous insects. New Info: There is a relation of the Red Back spider, but it only lives in sand dunes, hasn't killed anyone in 200 years and is classed as an endangered species in New Zealand.
The Maori name for New Zealand, Ao Tearoa, means Land of the Long White Cloud.
80% of New Zealand's native plant life is found nowhere else is the world.
Wellington is the southern-most capital city in the world.
This is my walk from Cape Reinga to the Bluff in New Zealand. It's a journey that will take me the best part of a year and over 2,000 miles. The picture to the left is from the Te Araroa website and is the proposed route I intend to take. There are far too many places to the left and right of that path that I want to wander in, so I imagine I'll be taking a few detours! After a walk round Cape Reinga it's onto the 90 Mile Beach to get my heels aching, but it'll be a fantastic few nights on the beach I hope!
Places I want to go to that aren't on my pre-designed trail are: Taranaki, Bay of Plenty, Coromandel Forest and The Great Barrier Island.
New Zealand has some of the most beautiful walks in the world, including the Milford Track, often referred to as 'The Finest Walk in the World'. A huge range of landscapes and climates stretching from sub-tropical forests, volcanic platforms, moor and heathland to alpine-style mountains and fjord-lands.
Hiking is called Tramping in New Zealand and it's one of their oldest and fondest forms of fun, they do it with gusto too! All along the length and breadth of the country are tramping huts, set within a few hours to a day's walk from each other. I found out you can get an annual pass to stay in these huts for the equivalent of £40 and they can be used in about 75% of all huts, and about 90% of the one's I'd want to use. Plus they have free camping laws, meaning that so long as you're not on private land, you can put up a tent anywhere that's at least 100m from the road.
They have no scary animals at all, in fact, the only mammals are rabbits and the occasional deer and pig. Oh, and whales and sea-lions. Everything else are birds and non-poisonous insects. New Info: There is a relation of the Red Back spider, but it only lives in sand dunes, hasn't killed anyone in 200 years and is classed as an endangered species in New Zealand.
The Maori name for New Zealand, Ao Tearoa, means Land of the Long White Cloud.
80% of New Zealand's native plant life is found nowhere else is the world.
Wellington is the southern-most capital city in the world.