How do you create an iconic walking trail? First, take a pinch of initiative, a handful of funding and a bucketful of foresight.
Mix this together with a breathtakingly unique natural environment and then throw in an historic site of international significance for good measure. Journalist turned track guide and owner of Wilderness Guides Marlborough Sounds Juliet Gibbons deliberates on the ingredients that make the Queen Charlotte Track a great New Zealand walk . . .
Most New Zealanders who walk the Queen Charlotte Track in the Marlborough Sounds are surprised to find out that it isn’t one of the Department of Conservation’s official Great Walks. In the minds of many, it is one already.
Located in the Marlborough Sounds and accessed by boat from the seaside town of Picton, the Queen Charlotte Track entices walkers from all around the world.
Wilderness Guides have spent the past 18 years hosting walkers to experience the Queen Charlotte Track and have packages to suit all tastes and budgets. From family trips to backpacker style accommodation options combining hiking with kayaking and mountain biking through to the premier hotel and boutique lodge guided and independent walks, there is something for everyone. All feature the Queen Charlotte Track’s unique bag transfer system meaning you walk with just a day pack along the way.
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Walking The Islands Made Accessible And Affordable
The Bay of Islands Walking Weekend has a huge variety of walks.
Martha Mine Pit Rim Walk
Waihi’s Pit Rim Walkway/Cycleway is a most enjoy-able walk that starts at the Waihi Information Centre and also ends there.
Queen Charlotte Track
A spectacular coastal walk among lush native bush.
Flinders Island
Rugged mountain ranges full of wildlife and flora.
Lake Okareka Wetland And Board Walk
Lake Okareka is approximately 9 kms from Rotorua and is different from other lakes in the district for the fact that it is surrounded by farmland in a picturesque setting of hills and native forest.
Mt Alford challenge
Only four of the Tower Trampers headed off from Christchurch to Mt Alford. Two of us had not done this tramp before so we were certainly up for the challenge.
Record Numbers Take To New Zealand's National Walking Trail
Record numbers of people took to the Te Araroa Trail over the summer season, with some sections of the national trail recording more than double the number of walkers anticipated.
Three Days in Crowd Paradise
It had been almost 60 years since I had been to “the grandest of all the special temples of Nature I was ever permitted to enter” (John Muir).
Walk Through Wellington's History
Queen Victoria’s statue seemed an appropriate starting point for me to set off on the new Commonwealth Walkway – even if the good queen lorded it over the British Empire well before it softened into the Commonwealth.
Burkes Pass To Becks
Great New Zealand Trek… Stage 12.
