Challenging. Terrible weather.
Swarming with sandflies.
But beautiful.
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Dusky Track, New Zealand
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Dusky Track, New Zealand
Dusky Track, New Zealand
Challenging. Terrible weather.
Swarming with sandflies.
But beautiful.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
#10 – Overland Track, Australia
Tasmania’s Overland Track is one of our top 10 hikes in the world.
Why?
Our favourite multi-day tramp in Australia. 
- surreal, unique Tasmanian vistas
- pretty lakes, tarns and waterfalls
- exiting by ferry, it’s minimum 62km (38.5mi) carrying a pack plus many possible sidetrips without a pack. Elevation Gain: 4,793 ft / 1,461 m
- Elevation Loss: -5,160 ft / 1,573 m
- 8000-9000 walkers / year
- 60 walkers start / day in high season
- Oct 1 – May 31 Overland Track Pass reservations online
- access by public transportation
- easy-moderate hiking IF the weather cooperates
- add challenging sidetrip peak scrambles if the weather is good
- Nov – early May best months
- possible to hike year round (snow travel during the winter)
World → Austalasia → Australia → Overland
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For details click over to our Overland Track information page.
NEW Great Walk in New Zealand – Paparoa Track
Fully opened March 1, 2020.
Bookings will open on Wednesday 10 June 2020 at 9:30 am, for trips from 1 October 2020 to 30 June 2021.
The Paparoa Track is a 55.7 km (34.6 mi) shared hiking and mountain biking track located in Paparoa National Park in the South Island of New Zealand.
The track was created as a memorial for the 29 miners who lost lives in the Pike River Mine disaster.
The track is the tenth Great Walk to be created …
Highlights
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Explore the spectacular Pororari River Gorge with dramatic limestone cliffs, beech forest and glades of subtropical nīkau palms.
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Sit back and enjoy in incredible sunsets over the Tasman Sea from the Moonlight Tops Hut.
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Follow in the footsteps of gold miners on the historic Croesus Track. Take a side trip to Garden Gully to see gold-mining remains.
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Enjoy the stunning views. You’ll spot the Lone Hand rock formation on the way to Pororari Hut.
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Tasmania’s Three Capes Track
Has the Overland Track, Australia‘s most famous long-distance walk, just been usurped? Edging along the tops of cliffs that soar more than 300m above the unruly Southern Ocean, the Three Capes Track (threecapestrack.com.au) has quickly assumed the mantle of Australia’s most intriguing bushwalk.
The four-day, 46km track opened to huge expectations at the end of 2015 …… criticisms that have hounded the track are the cost (at AU$495 per person, it’s more than double the price of the Overland Track) and initially there were no camping facilities for traditional bushwalkers. …To regulate walker numbers, which have been capped at 48 setting out each day, Tasmania’s Parks and Wildlife Service has established a permit system. Bookings should be made at threecapestrack.com.au/booking.
The walk officially begins at the Port Arthur Historic Site, about a 90-minute drive from the Tasmanian capital of Hobart.
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