Clean Green. That’s New Zealand. 80% of the flora is native. You will be staggered by the variety of the indigenous trees. The kauri forests of Northland, home of Tane Mahuta, New Zealand’s mightiest, 2000 year old tree, the blazing red Pohutakawa, known as NZ’s Christmas Tree, the nikau palms of the West Coast, the silver fern, pungas, manuaka (tea tree), rata, rimu, totara, kahikatea. Quite different to forest in other parts of the world and is often alive with birdsong. The Department of Conservation does a fantastic job building and maintaining paths, walkways and tracks to enable you to get among these trees and not just view from a distance.
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