New Zealand's Queen Charlotte Track

At the northern end of New Zealand’s South Island, Angus Phillips finds a fine alternative to the “cruelly rigorous” Appalachian Trail described in Bill Bryson’s in A Walk in the Woods. “After a few days hiking, kayaking and mountain biking on New Zealand’s South Island, I can say categorically that there is a better way. Talk about polar opposites: New Zealand’s Queen Charlotte Track is to the Appalachian Trail what the Ritz-Carlton is to a homeless shelter.” In the Seattle Times.

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