Hiking and Tramping Links
Here are some links to accommodation establishments as well as conservation, environmental and outdoor related links, which are great to look at. A great variety of opportunities to learn more, or volunteer, or shop, or go hiking in the South Island - you get the idea! Enjoy...
Accomodation in and around Waipukurau
Discover Waipukurau, Central Hawke’s Bay
This site has details of several B&B’s and Farm Stays near Waipukurau, as well as details of restaurants,
cafes and pubs – a surprising variety for a town of this size, and of surprisingly good quality and value!
Fergusson’s Motor Lodge
12 luxury ground floor units – within a few minutes walk is a variety of eating establishments, garden
walks and trout fishing.
Pukeora Estate & Winery
A family run vineyard, boutique winery and function venue. Accommodation for groups of up to 120 people or on a
more intimate scale a charming cottage for self catering or as a B&B.
Thornton Lodge Motel
Eleven spacious ground floor units – situated at the south end of town, 5 minutes walk from the Waipukurau CBD
Tuki Tuki Motel
14 spacious, self-contained units – 200m to town centre, shopping, licensed restaurants and cafes.
Hiking Gear
Kiwi Outdoor Stores
Kiwi Outdoors Stores group is New Zealand’s leading independent outdoor retail group. With other chains if
you’ve seen one store you have seen them all. Not so with Kiwi Outdoors Stores.
Buy Backpacks
Healthy Hiker Gear sells hiking gear, Gregory backpacks, camping tents, sleeping
bags and cookware, hiking backpacks & outdoor clothing.
Wilderness Magazine
New Zealand’s magazine of the outdoors.
Other Hiking Opportunities
Bush and Beyond, South Island
BUSH & BEYOND is the original guiding company in Kahurangi National Park. We are the only company who
’specialise’ in Kahurangi, and we are very passionate about it!
New Zealand Huts Introduction
New Zealand trampers are blessed not only by the splendid scenery available but also by a network of tracks and
huts allowing access into remote and beautiful parts of the back country. New Zealand huts were mostly built
by tramping and deer-stalking clubs.
New Zealand Tramper (Hiker)
This is a community-oriented information site about walking and tramping (hiking) in New Zealand. Information
here is provided by community members and is not officially authorised or verified.
Tora Coastal Walk
Three Day Walking Adventure in the stunning South Wairarapa. Situated 34 km south of Martinborough, the walk
traverses open farmland, native bush, windswept ridges, river valleys and the rugged Tora coastline.
Ultralight Tramping/Hiking
Ultralight tramping is about access to the best of backcountry New Zealand for a lot more New Zealanders.
On these pages we look at enjoying the New Zealand wilderness without having to carry heavy loads.
Travel arrangements
Freespirit Travel NZ
If you want the holiday of a lifetime, no matter what your budget or preferred style of travel, allow us to create you the
perfect tailor-made itinerary. We take away the stress of holiday planning and in return you experience the best New Zealand has to offer.
Seascape Tours
Cape Town Tours and tailor made holidays for the discerning visitor to South Africa.
Environment and Conservation Links
New Zealand Department of Conservation
Ark in the Park, Waitakere Regional Park
Ark in the Park is a partnership between Forest and Bird and the Auckland Regional Council.
It is a conservation project in northern New Zealand rain forest, at the Cascade Kauri Park in Auckland’s
Waitakere Ranges Regional Park.
Environmental Education for Resource Sustainability Trust
EERST is an award winning nationally-respected environmental trust. By using natural resources more sustainably and by taking
positive steps toward climate change in every community we believe we can find local solutions to global issues.
Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society
Forest & Bird. Protecting our native plants, animals and wild places, on land and in our oceans.
Help us to help nature.
Maungatautari Ecological Island Trust
Maungatautari - an internationally significant restoration project, this 3,400 hectare forested, extinct
volcano stands majestically on the landscape in the Waikato basin, between Cambridge, Te Awamutu and Putaruru,
in the central North Island of New Zealand.
New Zealand Trust for Conservation Volunteers
Join us in creating, preserving and restoring New Zealand’s natural environment.Help us to ’nurture nature’ in
sustaining our ecosystems, wildlife, native bush and forest, parks and reserves, beaches, waterways, urban and
rural landscape.
New Zealand Meteorological Weather Service
New Zealand Mountain Safety Council
Pukaha Mount Bruce
Wildlife viewing, eco and nature tour experience in the Wairarapa. Experience some of New Zealand’s endangered
wildlife up close and in the wild. Learn about what is being done to save kiwi, tuatara, kokako, kaka and return
them to our forest.