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The Redwoods: 5,500 hectares of glorious trees
https://www.aa.co.nz/travel/must-dos/the-redwoods-5500-hectares-of-glorious-trees/
While we love to celebrate our amazing native trees in Aotearoa – been to see Tāne Mahuta, the massive kauri yet? – we’re OK with imports, too.
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Matakana Coast: markets, beaches and vineyards
https://www.aa.co.nz/travel/must-dos/matakana-coast/
Matakana has gone crazy in the last decade or so: leaps and bounds barely describes it.
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Hawke’s Bay Wine Trails
https://www.aa.co.nz/travel/must-dos/hawkes-bay-wine-trails/
You’ll be hard pressed, to slip in a viticultural pun, to find a vineyard that is anything other than an aesthetic delight. They just don’t make ugly wineries!
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Hot Water Beach: BYO spade
https://www.aa.co.nz/travel/must-dos/hot-water-beach-byo-spade/
The last time you were told to bring a bucket and spade to the beach was when you were a kid, right?
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Forgotten World Highway: a rugged, beautiful drive
Doesn’t that just sound utterly attractive to the intrepid adventurer? Anything ‘forgotten’ demands immediate exploration.
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Timber Trail: cycle in the footsteps of early loggers
https://www.aa.co.nz/travel/must-dos/timber-trail-cycle-in-the-footsteps-of-early-loggers/
The first thing that’ll cross your mind as you criss-cross these phenomenal old trails is: they brought a tram through here?
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Climb Rangitoto: Auckland's most iconic volcano
https://www.aa.co.nz/travel/must-dos/climb-rangitoto-aucklands-most-iconic-volcano/
Auckland is a city built on volcanoes. Don’t panic or worry, that’s just how it is.
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Hamilton Gardens: beautifully curated spaces inspired by the world
You know you’re fully immersed in the whole travel thing when you find yourself spinning around in utter disbelief, asking, ‘Where am I, again?’
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Golfing in an alpine amphitheatre
https://www.aa.co.nz/travel/editorial/golfing-in-an-alpine-amphitheatre/
‘Upon the upland road,’ James K. Baxter wrote in his poem ‘High Country Weather’, ‘Ride easy, stranger/Surrender to the sky your heart of anger.’
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Eastland Tairāwhiti: first to see the light
https://www.aa.co.nz/travel/editorial/eastland-tairawhiti-first-to-see-the-light/
‘Poverty Bay’ is a serious misnomer for this place of plenty, I thought, as I lugged my trug of technicolour fruit and veges from our orchard and garden, hefting it...