New Zealand Hiking Tour Out West

A New Zealand hiking tour planned in the Waitakere Ranges has access to 140 different trails with 250 kilometres length.

Track quality reaches from pram friendly walks drained and metaled about one metre wide. They tend to be shorter.

For those on transit in Auckland a guided coast tour introduces West Auckland in a nutshell.

Others are rugged tramping tracks marked in maps without clearly defined trail in the bush. Round up your outdoor hiking tour with an overnight stay. Pre-organized lodges and park campsites are available.


Hiking in New Zealand leads to more than 400 plant species about 80 are endangered.

Trails pass mature and regenerating forest and rainforest, coastal walks and beaches, streams, waterholes and waterfalls, historic places of Maori and immigrants and nature creations.


What about: An eight day North Island tour with hiking, cycling, dolphin swimming and many things more.

• Choose a hike that matches your experience, level of energy and liking of highlights
• Allow enough time for the tour
• Plan your outdoor hiking carefully no matter how long, cell phones often lack reception and tell someone where you plan to go and for how long approximately
• Something to keep you warm and dry
• Enough water and food
• Sun protection
• toilet paper, stay away 50 metres of any stream, dig a hole and cover everything

For overnight stays :

• Waterproof pack liner
• Some insulation mat to sit and sleep on
• Shelter for the night, tent or bivvy bag

Stay on the trails to protect animals and plants.

Keep streams and lakes clean. Bury toilet waste in 50 metre distance. The same rule applies for washing dishes or yourself in addition to the use of biodegradable soaps.

Leave only footprints and take rubbish with you.

Consider others and most important enjoy yourself and this beautiful land.


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