When asked by the Radio New Zealand Reporter what my favourite part of hiking the 3000km Te Araroa trail was I replied immediately, it is the people.

Before starting any adventure, there’s a necessary period of organisation, the longer and more challenging the adventure, the longer the planning. Getting ready to walk 3000km on New Zealand’s Te Araroa took us months to organise.

For one hundred and thirty three days we went on an epic adventure, walking from Cape Reinga to Bluff in New Zealand. Te Araroa is more than 3000 kilometres.

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