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Lonely Planet Hiking & Tramping in New Zealand Sarah Bennett, Lee Slater, Jim DuFresne
Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications

Glaciers pour off a row of sharp peaks in the Forbes Range angling into the sky. After a quick trip through customs and biosecurity (where our hiking boots – er, tramping shoes – were deemed free of hoof-and-mouth disease and other contagions), we took the Airbus Express into the city. Collect a leaflet at the visitors' centre on Victoria Road for a walking tour that takes in a former naval battery and Mount Victoria Reserve. Guidebook Tramping in New Zealand, $22 US, lonelyplanet.com. My hiking partner, Gary Kuehn, an American who has lived here on New Zealand's South Island working as a mountain guide for several years—long enough, apparently, to pick up that semi-intelligible Kiwi accent—looks around, grins, and mutters, “Pritty noice.” . As night fell we drove for 20 minutes on a winding road to reach the Lonely Planet-recommended Little Paradise Lodge. Lonely Planet Tramping in New Zealand (Lonely Planet Walking Guide). Oct 14, 2010 - One of the best ways to get closer to the clouds is to use your feet on some of the numerous (and some famous) walking paths and hiking or tramping trails that crisscross the North and South Islands. Nov 18, 2011 - Lonely Planet Tramping in New Zealand (Lonely Planet Walking Guide). All this and a menu of multicultural Lonely Planet's essential Auckland. Aug 30, 2010 - Thus the atrocious beginning of the Lonely Planet guide to New Zealand that Justine and I purchased shortly after landing at Auckland airport in late 1997. The top attractions, according skyline and Rangitoto Island. We walked through the Auckland Domain (a large city park) to the . Sep 14, 2007 - A highlight is tramping (Kiwi for bushwalking) on the mainland or on one of Hauraki Gulf's great island escapes. Explore Maori and other From Lonely Planet's New Zealand (13th edition), $39.95. Mansfield; writings in which nature featured prominently, but as a vehicle of social, psychological and historical meanings, more intensely than but otherwise not entirely unlike the countryside of my own maternal ancestors, or the mountains where my parents used to hike before my sister and I were born.