Travel Reference
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New Zealand's Nine Great Walks
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The Great Walk that's actually a canoe or kayak trip (
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) takes pad-
dlers along a 145km stretch of the Whanganui River, NZ's longest navigable
river. It is one of the country's great wilderness adventures, a magical journey from
highlands to lowlands - through sheer gorges and over quick, bouncy rapids, amid
dense native forest aquiver with bird life, including NZ's national icon, the kiwi.
