Backpacking New Zealand
Let’s backpack! Go go go...! Hold on a minute. Before we leap just how do you Backpack New Zealand? The Dictionary says the Noun for backpack is a rucksack whilst the verb states to go hiking with a backpack Backpacking is... “To walk well, you hike light: Light on yourself, light on your budget and light on the land. Marlyn Doan author Hiking Light” 
So I guess backpacking New Zealand or to backpack is to travel around with a rucksack. So for many of us we’ll want to know about
Hostels in New Zealand.
For those who want to know more about New Zealand backpacking then read on…Phil and I surmise that just because you have a backpack it doesn’t actually mean you’re not going to stay in hotels, rent baches in New Zealand or put your feet up at a New Zealand luxury Inn. So backpacking is simply a generic term for travelling around New Zealand under your own steam then? Well, yes… others say it’s a purer form of backpacking in New Zealand like the more traditional travelling by bus: Check out our info on
New Zealand tourism on wheels.
So to sum up… You backpack with a backpack and go backpacking in New Zealand whilst sometimes staying at backpackers. So what about New Zealand hiking? Well, that of course is within the backpacking principle too and can often mean you are camping under the stars. Don’t forget you have more campsites available to you than in the whole of France and the UK combined. The only thing to remember is that it’s all under the umbrella of backpacking in New Zealand. Stout boots, a map and a rucksack means hiking, walking, tramping and backpacking New Zealand style.
All of this available to you the length and breadth of New Zealand. Check out the Hostels page (link at top of page) for more info on budget New Zealand accommodation with backpackers and YHA’s. Backpack New Zealand anyway you want. Check out those organisations (both big and small) that offer package trips. Try Fiordland National Park on the South island that includes Hollyford Track, Milford and Doubtful Sound. On the North island the Franklin Coromandel area taking in Port Waikato, and the Pinnacles, Coromandel, hot water beach and Karangahake Gorge… sigh.. so beautiful (take a camera of course for some stunning New Zealand pictures) 
There will always be a way to visit and view this extraordinary land. It’s just how are you going to choose where your backpacking New Zealand journey begins and what you are going to see? “There is an intense but simple thrill in setting off in the morning on a mountain trail, knowing that everything you need is on your back. It is a confidence in having left the inessentials behind and of entering a world of natural beauty that has not been violated, where money has no value, and possessions are a dead weight. The person with the fewest possessions is the freest.” Paul Theroux author of The Happy Isles of Oceania Hike back from Backpacking New Zealand to Home Page |
