Wondering what to do and where to go with your travel days in Auckland? I've lived in Auckland city and explored extensively for over a year. My list here isn’t super long, but that’s because I’ve chosen to list only the things we really love and actually do ourselves. Here are the top places we take our visitors.

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All my favourite places on the North Island of Aotearoa New Zealand. I've narrowed it down to my top choices to give you some inspo. But I have a more extensive map on Google, with 200+ locations and colour-coded sections so it's easy to navigate. You can even save it to reference once you're on the road! Message me for FREE access. 
Details also on my blog: https://runawaytraveller.com/north-island-map-explore/

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Waitomo Caves

For $60 per person, enjoy a guided tour through Waitomo Caves including its surprisingly interesting history, the names of certain features, and a short boat ride through the river at the end where you can really enjoy the glow worms.

A must-do. This is the "glow worm capital of the world" and you can only see these weird lil glowing guys in New Zealand (and a couple spots in Aus).

I definitely recommend to try tubing if you wanna go.
PS. the photo is exaggerating!! 

Waitomo Caves

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