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

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    My favourite parts of New Zealand will almost always be the ones that are the hardest to get to; ones like the very northern tip of the Coromandel Peninsula, where you have to drive for hours on a gravel road that narrows to one way and skirts right
    2025, the year I travelled New Zealand from north to south and then south to north (once again). The year I went to Rotorua for a work thing and ended up moving there after a spontaneous date changed everything. A year of still figuring things out,
    An overnight hike to an old railway hut, an incongruous building painted in the palest pastel green. It’s out in big sky country in a lonely corner of the South Island (which looks so much like Montana Jane Campion used these golden hills as a
    The Paparoa Track was so many things I did not expect. I didn’t expect good weather, and we had three days of sunshine, two beautiful sunsets. I didn’t expect to be so blown away by the feat of the track; purpose built, it only opened

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    Petrina Darrah is a freelance travel writer specialising in outdoor adventure travel in New Zealand.

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