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West Coast

New Zealand

Travel tips for West Coast (26)

  • Heaphy Track

    New Zealand's longest Great Walk, 78 km through Kahurangi National Park from the Aorere valley in Golden Bay to the wild West Coast near Ka…

  • Hokitika Gorge

    A granite gorge where the Hokitika River runs a startling milky turquoise, coloured by fine 'glacial flour' ground from the mountains.

  • Lake Matheson

    A small, dark lake near Fox Glacier, famous for its mirror reflections of Aoraki/Mt Cook and Mt Tasman.

  • Punakaiki Pancake Rocks and Blowholes

    Strange layered limestone stacks at Dolomite Point that look like piles of pancakes, formed over 30 million years from layers of limestone …

  • Franz Josef Glacier (Kā Roimata o Hine Hukatere)

    One of the few glaciers in the world that descends almost into temperate rainforest.

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