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Pike29 Memorial Track

April 2, 2021 pdg

Paparoa Track: NZ’s newest Great Walk

A practical guide to Aotearoa’s 10th Great Walk and the tragic story behind it.

About Ramblings

Kia ora and welcome to Ramblings, a fairly random collection of travel stories, photos and reportage from New Zealand and around the world by Peter de Graaf. I’m a reporter and occasional travel writer based in Kerikeri, a small town in New Zealand’s Far North. Read more...

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The Tui has variously been a sugar barge, a restaurant, a shipwreck museum laden with treasure, and the target of a notorious jewel thief and rapist.

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WEIRD TRAVEL

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The Bone Church of Kutná Hora: Final resting place of 40,000 people or macabre tourist attraction?

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The monks of Sedlec Abbey, in what is now the Czech Republic, turned a problem into a morbid masterpiece.

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PHOTOS

New Zealand Photos

Hīkoi mō te Tiriti: A new generation rises up

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A photo essay capturing the start of one of New Zealand’s biggest-ever protests, the nine-day Hīkoi mō te Tiriti (‘March for the Treaty’).

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Ukraine revisited: Invasion rekindles memories of long-ago trip

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Middle East Photos

Jordan in pictures

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Egypt in pictures

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Cambodia in pictures

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