Where in the world could an adventuring hiker traverse the rim of an ancient volcanic complex, with sweeping panoramas out across open ocean and inwards up an 8 mile volcanic harbour? Where could you spend the night inside a private white-flippered penguin sanctuary, see the world's smallest dolphins with their rounded fins, watch fur seals in numbers and spot many rare land and marine birds? Where could you hear a dawn chorus, such a cacophony that you will never forget it? And walk through the tamous “Fools and Dreamers” Hinewai Reserve, 1500 hectares of native forest, with its ancient beech, tree ferns, fuchsia and rapidly regenerating native flora and fauna? All this and more on the Banks Track!
This unique, extinct, highly eroded, volcanic complex forming Banks Peninsula, is situated east of Christchurch on New Zealand's South Island, providing the
