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PETRINA DARRAH
New Zealand Travel Guide
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About
Contact
FREE ITINERARY DOWNLOAD
New Zealand Travel Guide
Road Trips
Trip Planning
About
Contact
FREE ITINERARY DOWNLOAD

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    A little red hut, high in the mountains. Reached by a trail that isn’t really a trail but more of a suggestion as to how to scramble across rocky terrain. Way too many river crossings, but at least the glacial water looked like diamonds in th
    A few photos from an overnight camping trip in Tongariro National Park 📸✨ For a long time I’ve felt like the South Island is where the best of New Zealand’s hikes are, but this little mission made me change my mind 🌅 Home for this nig
    2024 is stumbling to a close and I’m still untethered. It has been almost two and a half years of living out of a bag, out of a pile of things I almost always throw on the floor of subletted apartments and rooms with friends and family who ap
    This time last year, I was in the middle of the polar night in Norway. I loved it so much, in June I went back to see the midnight sun. There’s something really magical to me about being north of the arctic circle, on islands on the edge of t

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