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The little town that could

The little town that could

Not just home to New Zealand’s most famous public loos, Kawakawa has a working vintage steam train and glow-worm caves, among other attractions. Megan McChesney visits the Bay of Islands town that’s reinventing itself.
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Horse trekking on Pakiri Beach, a 14km stretch of paradise in lower Northland.

The end of the line

Dip over the hill into Pakiri and it’s like stepping back into “old New Zealand” – where community still means just that and kids run barefoot on family land passed down through the generations.
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