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Te Urewera National Park (New Zealand)

Description: Remote, rugged, immense, Te Urewera contains the largest forested wilderness remaining in the North Island. It is ... more

Te Urewera National Park (New Zealand) ... famous for its lakes and forested beauty as well as its stormy history.

Newest Review: ... the cultivated plantations that line the route along which we came the day before from Rotorua. Here tree-ferns and tall ... more

... tufted pampas grass are interspersed with the clumps of trees. Perched lilies and red and yellow mistletoe decorate the higher branches of the native evergreen beeches. Pale blue starbursts of wild agapanthus fringe the roadside, together with verbascum and blood-orange crocosmia. As the road rises, we pause frequently to take in the scenery and absorb the atmosphere. It is a hot day, but the air tastes clean and fresh. Although there is little passing traffic, the forest is not silent, but pulsates with the sibilan...more

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Te Urewera National Park (New Zealand): Motherland of the Mist (2486 words)
by - written on 07/04/06 (Very useful, 442 readings)
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Te Urewera is one of the largest and most scenically spectacular of New Zealand’s thirty-eight national and forest parks. It is also one of the least visited by tourists. The reason for this can only be because Te Urewera isn’t on the way to anywhere, unless you count the remote and sparsely populated corner of the North Island to which my friend John B has eccentrically retired, though his emailed directions on how to reach him put even that in doubt. “If you are feeling foolhardy,” he said, “you could try coming through the national park. It looks half the distance on the map but it will take you twice as long. There are places on this road where you don’t ... Read the complete review

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