It's 4:50am and the alarm goes off; it's time. It's the moment I will be ticking off the first Great Walk off my list, this one being, The Abel Tasman Coastal Track. Currently residing in Golden Bay as it is, the Abel Tasman national park borders the Golden Bay area and so it's not too far away at all; may as well tick the closest one off first! Well what can I say about it, if the beaches found in the Abel Tasman weren't so secluded, they would be packed with tourists, with

I recently was gifted a book written by a famous adventure enthusiast, Levinson Wood, titled "Walking the Himalayas." Levinson once challenged himself to walk the length of the Himalayas spanning 1600 miles covering 5 countries starting in Afghanistan and ending in Bhutan. Along the way he reached Everest base camp, met the Dalai Lama and also was the first to climb a certain mountain in Bhutan, which, after find a snow leopard den near the summit, he suitably named it, "Snow

The first adventures back in New Zealand