Back in August 2007 (yes, this blog really has been going that long) I wrote about Te Araroa, the proposed walking track running the length of New Zealand. I mentioned that it was due to open in 2008.
Well, today, some three years behind schedule, it was officially opened. In this story on the Radio New Zealand website, the chief executive of Te Araroa Trust, Geoff Chapple, who
conceived the idea of the track, is quoted as saying he'd like to see all New Zealanders make it their goal to walk it.
"I remember Mao Zedong saying every Chinese has to see the Great Wall
at some time," he says. "Cultural goals are fun...so we'll put it up as a goal:
walk New Zealand in your lifetime."
The official Te Araroa website is here.
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