Mavora Lakes
Mavora Lakes Park is an impressive landscape of mountains, lakes, forest and tussock grassland, recognised as part of the Te Wāhipounamu/South-West New Zealand World Heritage Area.
The park’s main features are two lakes named North Mavora and South Mavora. Stunningly beautiful and awe-inspiring, areas of the park were used as a filming location for some scenes in the Lord of the Rings film series: Nen Hithoel, Silverlode and Anduin Rivers, the edge of Fangorn Forest and South of Rivendell.
Mavora is a popular camping area during summer, with opportunities for fishing, boating, 4-wheel driving, hunting, horse trekking, mountain biking and tramping.
There are a number of day walks in the area, such as the South Mavora Track – a 4-6 return track and the Kiwi Burn Loop Track, which is 3 hours return, and also the 50km, 4-day tramping track; The Mavora – Greenstone Walkway. It links the Mavora Lakes camping area with the Greenstone Track, passing through open valley tussock land and beech forested hill country.
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Eyre Mountains/Taka Ra Haka
Explore the relatively undeveloped conservation park Eyre Mountains (Taka Ra Haka) which is comprised of over 65,000 hectares of open tops, tarns, river valleys and a rugged mountain range that climbs up to 2000 meters – the highest peaks in Southland outside of Fiordland. A great variety of flora and fauna call this area home, […]
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