Mike
Me and some friends want to go to new zealand and I want to backpack through it not get a camper van and drive across really backpack across new zealand like camping every night kind of backpacking can you just pick a starting point and just go or are there special trails you are meant to follow?
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Unless you have unbelievable amounts of time to kill (like 6-12 months minimum), hiking the entire country is wasting lots of time and not practical. Spending days walking the countryside between major destinations would seriously take away from time better spent at places you are interested in. However, doing this may be a great way to meet locals along the way and get to see great spots off the tourist trail that only locals know about.
If you are intent on not using any motorized vehicle around the country, then a bicycle is a decent alternative. This could save you a lot of time crossing the countryside and give you the same advantages of hiking the country. You can tent/camp or stay at hostels if you need a decent shower/bed along the way while biking or hiking.
I took local buses to get between major hiking hot spots around the country.
However you want to get around the country, be a responsible backpacker. NZ is still a mostly wild place. Humans are the biggest threat to the nature and landscape that is only found in NZ. Carry your trash out wherever you are camping. Stay on the trails so you don't contribute to eroding the landscape. Don't take anything from the environment. Even the dirt on your shoes can carry and transport organisms and disease to normally undisturbed areas. Australia and NZ are full of disaster stories of accidental transportation of animals/organisms that devastated the new receiving environment. Plus, natural dangers of glaciers and mountains and heavy rainfall/flash flooding (2010 was unbelievable in Milford!) put unknowing and unprepared campers in peril. If you need to be rescued because of your own incompetence/ignorance, you will be charged the fee of a few thousand dollars to send emergency crew/equipment to rescue you. Any injuries you sustain are not covered by travel health insurance in this circumstance.
Unless you have unbelievable amounts of time to kill (like 6-12 months minimum), hiking the entire country is wasting lots of time and not practical. Spending days walking the countryside between major destinations would seriously take away from time better spent at places you are interested in. However, doing this may be a great way to meet locals along the way and get to see great spots off the tourist trail that only locals know about.
If you are intent on not using any motorized vehicle around the country, then a bicycle is a decent alternative. This could save you a lot of time crossing the countryside and give you the same advantages of hiking the country. You can tent/camp or stay at hostels if you need a decent shower/bed along the way while biking or hiking.
I took local buses to get between major hiking hot spots around the country.
However you want to get around the country, be a responsible backpacker. NZ is still a mostly wild place. Humans are the biggest threat to the nature and landscape that is only found in NZ. Carry your trash out wherever you are camping. Stay on the trails so you don't contribute to eroding the landscape. Don't take anything from the environment. Even the dirt on your shoes can carry and transport organisms and disease to normally undisturbed areas. Australia and NZ are full of disaster stories of accidental transportation of animals/organisms that devastated the new receiving environment. Plus, natural dangers of glaciers and mountains and heavy rainfall/flash flooding (2010 was unbelievable in Milford!) put unknowing and unprepared campers in peril. If you need to be rescued because of your own incompetence/ignorance, you will be charged the fee of a few thousand dollars to send emergency crew/equipment to rescue you. Any injuries you sustain are not covered by travel health insurance in this circumstance.
I want to go camping (read below)?
Dora
(In About 10 weeks) No Caravan Camping, or Cabin but Tent Camping in the Woods with Bush Walking, Fishing, Camp Fires, etc. A good place for Me and my Friends to get together. I live in Newcastle, any places like this? Btw I don't want to be around other ppl (Obiously there will be ppl there BUT like not near ppl or bush walking with a group of ppl and stuff), I want it to be like, you chose I place to set up a camp and run by your own rules.
Answer
Is that Newcastle as in Irn Bru? In north east England?
Where the A167 goes out to the A1 and then the other side of the roundabout the A696 goes past the airport and then to the Northumberland National Park where you can get lost in the woods for weeks and not see a soul for a fortnight and run out of fish and chips and mushy peas and have to live on what you've got?
Cos if it is the Northumberland National Park is the place for that.
Or up in Kielder Forest where there are miles of trails, a huge lake, loads of fish, sailing, swimming, canoes, places for tents, and a bus every three weeks...nah, not that bad.
The post bus goes every day to Kielder village. Sit in with the mail and go the scenic route while it gets delivered to all the lonely farms on the way.
Or is it Newcastle on the east coast of Ireland with the lovely Slieve Donard right behind it and a view to live for when you've run to the top and space for thousand tents in the hills all around where nobody will come by for days on end.?
Or is it one of the several Newcastles in USA, or in New Zealand or Australia or South Africa?
And you want your own rules too? Well, that could mean none of those places.
You need your own country for that and then you make the rules cos it's your very own country.
Is that Newcastle as in Irn Bru? In north east England?
Where the A167 goes out to the A1 and then the other side of the roundabout the A696 goes past the airport and then to the Northumberland National Park where you can get lost in the woods for weeks and not see a soul for a fortnight and run out of fish and chips and mushy peas and have to live on what you've got?
Cos if it is the Northumberland National Park is the place for that.
Or up in Kielder Forest where there are miles of trails, a huge lake, loads of fish, sailing, swimming, canoes, places for tents, and a bus every three weeks...nah, not that bad.
The post bus goes every day to Kielder village. Sit in with the mail and go the scenic route while it gets delivered to all the lonely farms on the way.
Or is it Newcastle on the east coast of Ireland with the lovely Slieve Donard right behind it and a view to live for when you've run to the top and space for thousand tents in the hills all around where nobody will come by for days on end.?
Or is it one of the several Newcastles in USA, or in New Zealand or Australia or South Africa?
And you want your own rules too? Well, that could mean none of those places.
You need your own country for that and then you make the rules cos it's your very own country.
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