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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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    I spent a night completely alone at this little hut at the end of a path through the mossy forest. So much moss! A beautiful, enchanted, eerie forest with all that moss, and the wind rattling the tree branches together, and the cold drawing a fog d
    For the past few years I’ve been escaping New Zealand in winter. I’m mostly solar powered, and without the warmth and light of the sun, everything feels so much smaller. But, this year I was here. I got my first set of micro spikes, and
    At first I thought it was a family in puffer jackets, four squat figures shuffling along the beach. The sun wasn’t up yet, and I thought I would be the first one on the beach - the rest of the campground was calm and still, no one around as I
    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

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