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New Zealand: Te Araroa - The Long Pathway

Postal Address: Te Araroa Trust, PO Box 5106, Wellesley Street, Auckland 1141, NZ
Tel.: DD 09 445 0524
0000 Email: info@teararoa.org.nz
Web Page: www.teararoa.org.nz/

Te Araroa - The Long Pathway - is a continuous 3000 km walking track from Cape Reinga to Bluff. Te Araroa will provide the ultimate 120-day New Zealand through-tramp, but will provide also section tramps lasting anything from a few days to a week or more, and many attractive day- or overnight walks. It is a different kind of trail from the traditional back-country tramping tracks. Te Araroa connects settlements, townships and cities, and is best conceived as a corridor that encourages social and economic transactions en route - for marae stays and other cultural experiences, also food and accommodation. The track corridor will showcase a wide variety of New Zealand experiences - natural, cultural, and historic.

The Web page given above doesn't provide information on trail maintenance on the Te Araroa, but shows pictures of people working trail.

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