Welcome to Ondine and Stefano’s hiking website!

After many years of hiking in our beloved mountains close to home, our dream has finally come true: we are tempting a thru-hike of Te Araroa, a 3000km long hike crossing the whole country of New Zealand!

Starting in Cape Reinga, the northernmost point of the North Island, we are planning to hike almost (we will not hike on the roads) all the way down to Bluff, the southernmost point of the South Island.


114
Days on trail
75.3%
of Te Araroa
1745.1
Km hiked/paddled
46917 m
Total elevation gain
33 km
Longest day
1672 m
Max elevation gain
55
Tent Nights
20
Hut nights
35
Rest days
66
Hot showers
46
Rainy days
53
Days with wet feet
8
Pairs of shoes
5
Canoeing days
57
Hitchhikes
∞
Memories

 

You can follow our steps here…! Enjoy! (Because we will 😜)

If you are interested in some other multi-day hikes that we did, you can find here some posts about the Alta Via 9 that we hiked in summer 2021 in the Dolomites, Italy, and you can find here some posts about the partial Tour du Mont Blanc hike that we did in summer 2022.

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