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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...
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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...