- Torbay - Auckland City YHA
- Auckland city YHA - Mangere Air BnB
- Mangere Air BnB - Clevedon
What can be said for Auckland? It is like any other big city to we hikers- our bags knock into everyone and everything, our attire against those in business dress is unsightly, and their is nowhere to camp!
Unlike Robert and Anna, we had 't thought of sleeping in Macdonalds and then in the International departures lounge at the airport so wound up spending way more than the budget allowed on a YHA hostel and an Air BnB- will have to get more creative next time!
The coast to coast walk through the city takes you up and around Mt Eden and other old volcanoes in the area, and past the airport you head through botanical gardens and marshland, but mostly it is hard, tiresome, busy road.
There is a stretch before the forest track to Clevedon that leads to a quarry and the number of lorries and trucks that pass is tiresome but once past these long stretches you are rewarded with the return to the countryside in the Waikato-King-Country region.
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