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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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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...
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Matakana coast and country: weekend wonderland
https://www.aa.co.nz/travel/editorial/matakana-coast-and-country-weekend-wonderland/
It’s not that long ago that Matakana was just a bend in the road between Warkworth and Leigh. Now it’s a byword for gourmet food, top-quality wine and arthouse cinema.
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Lake Waikaremoana Track: around the rippling waters
https://www.aa.co.nz/travel/editorial/lake-waikaremoana-track-around-the-rippling-waters/
The Lake Waikaremoana Track, in the remote Te Urewera region southeast of Rotorua, traces the shoreline of this spectacular lake, named by Māori the ‘sea of rippling waters’.
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Boating: Kiwis on the water
https://www.aa.co.nz/travel/editorial/boating-kiwis-on-the-water/
In the beginning, everyone came here by boat.
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Eastland: sun, sand and seclusion
https://www.aa.co.nz/travel/editorial/eastland-sun-sand-and-seclusion/
There’s a lot to be said for sticking to State Highway 2 when travelling down the east coast of the North Island and most of it involves the scenic splendours...
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Lake Waikaremoana: hidden gem
https://www.aa.co.nz/travel/editorial/lake-waikaremoana/
Te Urewera, according to eye-watering local legend, was named to commemorate a nocturnal incident involving the leader of a war party, someone else’s wife and the painful conjunction of his...
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Cape Rēinga: wild and unforgettable
https://www.aa.co.nz/travel/editorial/cape-reinga-wild-and-unforgettable/
As you approach Cape Rēinga the land narrows, affording glimpses of Northland’s east and west coasts as you climb the high, lonely road that eventually winds down to the Cape itself.