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Auckland Walking Tours - Full DayAuckland Walking Tours where we show you some of New Zealand’s best walking tracks in the Auckland Region. We can take you on an amazing wilderness walk, along trails that are not well known, with scenery that will take your breath away!
Auckland Walking Tours (full day) with TIME Unlimited Tours take you on some of New Zealand’s most spectacular walking tracks. We take you away from the crowds and along paths uncharted even by the most comprehensive guidebooks and deep into our timeless Waitakere Ranges rainforest. Walk through lush valleys and steep yourself in the fresh scents and the pure sounds of the bush.
Hike along windswept coastal cliffs and leave your footprints on wild and deserted black sand beaches. Feel the wind in your hair and the salt sea spray on your face. Explore hidden waterfalls and pure streams while sharing our legendary care and hospitality. While you may begin our Auckland Wilderness Walking Tours as our guest, you will certainly finish as our friends.
Discover wild, windswept, black sand beaches, virgin rainforest that is home to unique wildlife and towering ancient trees, dramatic waterfalls and mountain-fed streams and some of the most breathtaking views you’ll ever see. Have the TIME of your life on our Guided Wilderness Walks on our famous West Coast here in Auckland. Explore walking trails that are off the beaten tourist track and feel the real essence of New Zealand, all within a short 40 minute drive from Auckland city!
We can take you on a fully-guided walking tour through remote parts of the Waitakere Ranges with highly-qualified guides that know these ranges extremely well.
Be amazed as you walk along Auckland's famous West Coast with its subtropical rainforest, soaring cliffs, roaring surf and stunning black sand beaches below you. You will have the opportunity to walk on a black sand beach during the guided walk with us, including right up to the roaring ocean itself! Walk along the deserted shore, with the sound of the sea in your ears, the wind in your hair and the salt spray on your face.
After pick-up from your Auckland city accommodation, drive to the West, leaving behind Auckland city surprisingly quickly as you pass through Titirangi, which translates to "Fringe of Heaven" in the local Maori language. Titirangi has several nice cafes and bakeries, which the locals love to spend time in. Then enter the beautiful native rainforest that is the Waitakere Ranges, made famous by many movies that have been filmed here. Oscar-winning movie "The Piano" is a good example. As you drive through lush subtropical rainforest, learn about the local Flora and Fauna that inhabit these ranges.
Briefly stop at the Arataki Visitor Centre, where in good weather we will be able to show you breath-taking views across part of the Waitakere Ranges, back to Auckland city and the huge expanses of the Manukau Harbour. Auckland has 2 natural harbours, the Waitamata Harbour on the East Coast and the Manukau Harbour on the West Coast. There are several very interesting exhibits on display here about current and past inhabitants of the area, some of which we hope to encounter on our walk deep inside these ranges.
Continue on towards the West Coast, where we start our walking trail by winding our way through the forest with many indigenous plants, many of which are very special and which we will show you - including New Zealand's national icon, the famous Silver Fern! Many native plants were used extensively by Maori and we will be happy to show you which ones were the most useful; in fact Maori still use these plants for medicinal purposes today.
We will always keep a watchful eye out for the Flora and Fauna that live here. Equally famous are New Zealand's Pohutukawa trees, also referred to as NZ Christmas trees, which bloom in bright crimson-red colours around Christmas time. You will also see mighty Kauri trees that tower over these ranges, plus breath-taking viewpoints over the Tasman Sea, which separates New Zealand from Australia.
Have a great picnic lunch in a scenic location with great views. We choose from a variety of wonderful locations and it depends on when you are hungry and what the weather is doing! Then you will be refreshed for a continuation of your walk, which leads through the subtropical rainforest and along the coast as we continue on our way towards one of our most beautiful black sand beaches, where you can marvel at what Auckland's volcanic activity has created for us all to enjoy.
You can even see some stunning waterfalls along the way, depending on how far you are able to walk and if you feel like a swim under a waterfall at the end of your guided walk! If you are keen for this option, please let your guide know at the beginning of the tour, so this can be incorporated into the day's plans.
Auckland Wilderness Walking Tours (full day) highlights include:
- The Waitakere Ranges, known to local Maori as Te Wao Nui a Tiriwa, or the great forests of Tiriwa, in memory of one of their esteemed ancestors. Time stands still in this ancient rainforest which is home to rare native flora and fauna, towering native trees (including our mighty Kauri trees), secret waterfalls and pristine streams.
- The wild West Coast with its sheer soaring cliffs and rare black sand beaches where the mighty Tasman Sea rolls in.
- Picnic lunch (included in the price!) in a secluded bush glade, in a dramatic cliff top clearing or in a sheltered beachside cove.
- Titirangi (Maori for Fringe of Heaven), the artists’ enclave on the Manukau Harbour.
- The Arataki Visitor Centre at the gateway to Auckland's famous West Coast with its very interesting displays and magnificent views.
- Spectacular ocean vistas along Auckland’s wild West Coast in our famous Waitakere Ranges.
- Unique indigenous flora and fauna.
- Soaring cliffs, roaring surf and spectacular, volcanic black sand beaches.
- See some of the most stunning of all the black sand beaches on Auckland's famous West Coast.
- Ancient native rainforest including our New Zealand Christmas Trees (Pohutukawa Trees) and the amazing Kauri Trees.
- The opportunity to go for a swim if you wish.
- Breathtaking views in a remote part of this jewel of Auckland and New Zealand.
Auckland Wilderness Walking Tours (full day) include:
Transport to and from Auckland Central, personal and full day Auckland Wilderness Walking Tour, all equipment, snacks, hot/cold drinks and a delicious picnic lunch, plus all taxes and park fees! Please ensure you bring clothes suitable for the weather conditions on the day, which we can also help you with.
Price: NZ$245 per person.
Time frame: Pick up at 9am. Return around 5pm.
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