Hunt for icebergs and get a close-up view of a glacier face on an hour-long boat tour.
If you don a pair of walking shoes and head up the hill from Falcon Brae Villa on one of the property’s many trails, you’ll soon arrive at a peaceful bird-watching nook. Take a seat on the bench overlooking a tangle of forest – including some of the many thousands of mānuka and kānuka trees planted here as part of an ongoing programme to regenerate the land’s native flora and fauna – and watch and listen as the local birdlife, including tūī, kereru and pīwakawaka, goes about its day.
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DoC hut bookings open: Where is NZ s best value Great Walk 2021?
10 May, 2021 02:05 AM
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DOC operates more than 900 huts across New Zealand: Plateau Hut, Aoraki. Photo / Tim Donnelly, Flickr
DOC operates more than 900 huts across New Zealand: Plateau Hut, Aoraki. Photo / Tim Donnelly, Flickr
Thomas Bywater is a writer and digital producer for Herald Travelthomas.bywater@nzherald.co.nz@ThomasBywater
From Tuesday, DoC opens up the first tranche of backcountry huts for booking, with updated prices for the 2021/22 season.
With hundreds of huts in New Zealand s most scenic locations, walkers will be greeted by a number of upgrades to facilities. However this year also sees the biggest price increases to some huts in over a decade.