THERE’S SOMETHING MISSING FROM THE GREAT WALKS
Mar 23, 2022
3 minutes
BY TANIA RAE
To get to the Routeburn Track, we’d have to pass a sleeping giant: Matau, kidnapper and en-trapper of beautiful Māori maiden Manata, and whose scorched-yet-still-beating heart is considered by Ngāi Tahu to be responsible for the extraordinary rise and fall of the waters within Whakatipu Waimāori / Lake Wakatipu.
Journeying from Tāhuna-Queenstown, our waka (shuttle) would skirt the length of Matau’s resting body before eventually crossing Te Awa-Whakatipu / Dart
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