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WHAT YOU VISIT
Puketi Forest
Stretching out 15,000 hectares (37,000 acres), the Puketi Forest's plants and animals played a vital part of the lives of Maori and early European settlers providing food, shelter and clothing. Growing over 49 meters (164 feet) high these mighty giants are now protected in the Puketi Forest. A guided walk takes you around the magnificent stands of kauri, podocarp and hardwood trees. Along the way, you'll learn about the forest's rich ecological diversity that includes 370 recorded species of plants, some of which are found nowhere else in the world, and how endangered birds such as the toutouwai and kokako are slowly being reintroduced.

PHOTO OPPORTUNITIES
The highlight of your walk may be getting up close with the magnificent and ancient kauri trees that are up to 1,200 years old. You might want to zoom in on the flaking bark of the kauri tree that falls to the base of the trunk-this is the tree's clever way to ward off parasitic plants.

WHAT YOU SEE ALONG THE WAY
As the driver makes his way to the Puketi Forest, it's interesting to note that kauri trees once covered most of the Bay of Islands.