Tiki Trail - Start
Steep forest trail climbing from the gondola base through tall Douglas fir toward the peak lookout.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the start of the Tiki Trail in Queenstown begins with the town's schoolchildren planting trees on Arbour Day in the nineteen-forties and fifties, when the slopes above them were mostly grass. It follows a quiet piece of botany about light, seedlings and New Zealand's native beech forest, and what one plan to clothe a bare hillside set in motion. Best heard at the trailhead, looking up the slope before you start to climb.
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